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28.0.50; dired-hide-details-mode Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 24.4

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 49631 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#49631: 28.0.50; dired-hide-details-mode Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 24.4
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2021 18:04:32 +0200

Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org> writes:

> There could be a few functions for which that does not give correct
> results, as they were defined in weird ways.  We could add those
> functions manually to the records.  Since they won't be many, we could
> afford to do that by hand.

I see you're using the word "we" a lot here -- are you volunteering to
do this work?

If there's one thing Emacs doesn't need, it's yet more formalism around
adding/changing functionality.

We already have a procedure for this that is more than 99% accurate.
Adding all this work for getting to 100% and being able to remove the
word "probably" in the *Help* buffers seems like a very strange
prioritisation.

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