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From: David Moore <dmoore@ucsd.edu>
Date: 27 Mar 1997 15:02:12 -0800
In-Reply-To: Steven L Baur's message of 27 Mar 1997 13:53:39 -0800
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Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com> writes:

> David Moore writes:

[ dired's installation of a file handler for "." ]

> > [1] Can I scream now?
> 
> Have we irreversibly thrown away the ability to run ange-ftp?  Can we
> reasonably offer ange-ftp as a package in 20.2?

I am assuming that the dired "." handler is installed to do that magic
auto-update of dired windows when emacs creates/modifies/etc files which
should be in them.  But I haven't looked.  I also suspect this is
independent of efs.

If so, maybe that should be a user controlled variable defaulting to
off.  Or maybe dired could install much more tightly bound regexps, say
like things matching the whole path.

As it is now, if you load dired to look at just one directory, 5 days
later you'll still be paying quite large penalties to open local files
(can we say NNML, boys and girls?  i knew you could).

The file handlers are nifty things, but add real overhead when they get
called.  You really don't want "." as a regexp for them. :)

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