GNU bug report logs - #18836
25.0.50; `insert-directory' barfs on nonexistent file, but not for `ls-lisp-insert-directory'

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 19:57:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 25.0.50

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #23 received at 18836 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 18836 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#18836: 25.0.50;
 `insert-directory' barfs on nonexistent file, but not for
 `ls-lisp-insert-directory'
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2016 19:20:28 +0300
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Cc: 18836 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2016 18:05:06 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> >> Cc: 18836 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> >> Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2016 17:46:10 +0200
> >> 
> >> >> I have no opinion on that, but: What on Earth is that function (and all
> >> >> its adjacent functions) doing in files.el?
> >> >
> >> > Where else would you like them to be?
> >> 
> >> In dired.el.
> >
> > Dired isn't preloaded.
> 
> But does anything other than dired use it?  I see that other packages
> (like ange-ftp) instrument it...  it that the reason it's in files.el?

Yes.  Also, ls-lisp.




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