> From: "Drew Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 13:35:53 -0700 > Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org > > IOW, aside from putting directories first and not being case-sensitive, the > Windows listing also throws out the uid and gid, which don't mean a lot for > Windows.
They might not mean a lot now, but that's only because no one bothered to write the code to use the Windows equivalents of uid and gid. I hope someone will, and rather sooner than later. > I'm only pointing out that the defcustom code is a bit silly, wrt Windows. It's certainly not silly on non-Windows platforms. In the past, I heard reports of people who were used to ls-lisp and loaded it on Unix. > Might as well hard-wire the values for all of these variables (on Windows), > whatever values you decide upon. That would make ls-lisp not useful on Unix. So I don't think it's a good idea. > That's not the Emacs philosophy, AFAIK. Consistent behavior across > platforms is deemed more important than consistency with other > platform-specific applications. > > OK. But then why does the code in question attempt to modify the behavior > for different platforms? The default behavior is the same. The rest are options, users are free to customize them if they wish. > The order used by Windows tools is IMHO stupid and user-unfriendly: it > assumes, for some reason, that people do not look up directories and > files together. > > Fine. It's stupid and user-unfriendly. And it's what people are used to. Some people are. _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
