Re: EFS 1.14 bug: archie keymap bug

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Jack,

On Mon, 28 Nov 94 you wrote:

 > However, there's still a problem in that archie.el doesn't do
 > something or other that the efs-distributed dired wants, and so
 > archie buffers converted to dired buffers don't work.

That'll be the text properties.  find-dired has the same problem, and
Roland has said that he'll soon be fixing this.  It seems good for
dired to use text properties, because the efficiency gains are
enormous.  Best probably just to have standard functions that other
packages can call to turn directory listings into dired buffers with
text properties.  Actually they exist already, see dired-fsf.el.
XEmacs uses extents instead of text properties, but it should be
dired's job to make sure that it does the right things for the right
Emacs flavour.

vc.el also has problems with this.  It calls dired itself to get a
listing, so the text properties are set initially.  However, it then
edits the buffer, wrecking them.

 > scheduling it for the Christmas->New Year's break.  That OK?  Is
 > anyone egregiously inconvenienced by this???

OK by me.

--sandy

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