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#6799
24.0.50; Please add dired-details.el to Emacs [patch]
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Reported by: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 14:59:01 UTC
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Found in version 24.0.50
Done: Christopher Schmidt <christopher <at> ch.ristopher.com>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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In GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
of 2010-08-02 on 3249CTO
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
configured using `configure --with-gcc (4.4) --no-opt --cflags -Ic:/xpm/include'
---
Per Juanma's request, this is a another reminder to please add
`dired-details.el', with links to the threads that reference Rob Giardino's
patches.
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> From: Juanma Barranquero Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2010 3:19 AM
> To: help-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org Subject: Re: A "smaller" dired
>
> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 17:50, Drew Adams wrote
>
> > [FWIW - This feature was OK'd for addition to vanilla Emacs
> > a few years ago, but no one has bothered to add it.
> > The author of dired-details.el and myself tried
> > several times to get past the inertia, but to no avail so far.]
>
> A patch, or at least a reminder, to the bug list with a wishlist tag
> would help IMO.
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> From: Drew Adams Sent: Sunday, July 19, 2009 7:34 AM
> To: emacs-devel <at> gnu.org Subject: RE: dired-details[+].el
>
> > I discovered dired-details and dired-details+ and found them useful.
> > Could they be added to emacs?
> >
> > http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DiredDetails
>
> They were supposed to be added. Rob Giardina submitted an
> Emacs 23 patch two
> years ago that integrates the functionality of both in a
> better way even than
> the separate libraries dired-details[+].el.
>
> I don't think any reason was ever given for why the patch
> wasn't incorporated
> (committed). RMS asked for comment on the merged code, but no
> one ever answered
> his request (on emacs-devel, at least). The last time I
> ping'ed the list about
> this was 2008-07 - I never got an answer either.
>
> Last ping:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-07/msg01152.html
>
> Rob's change log and RMS's call for comment:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-07/msg01187.html
>
> Original thread:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-07/msg00226.html
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Christopher Schmidt <christopher <at> ch.ristopher.com> writes:
> Thank you very much. I am going to do that after I incorporate your
> feedback and give the code another round of testing. Thank you so
> much for your feedback and your help.
I applied the patch (r111768).
Christopher
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