Re: dired-move-to-filename-regexp

[Richard Stallman]

    > That would be rather unreliable, since it would need to figure out the
    > number of spaces between fields in both the new output and the old
    > buffer.  The gains that we got from --dired would be lost.
    > I won't accept this approach.

    Of course, the filename part would be determined just as it is now (using
    the --dired data if available, for example).

Ok, you're right about that part.  When using --dired, we would
still reliably find the filename.  But finding where to insert extra
spaces would not be entirely reliable, just as finding the file name
was not entirely reliable in the past.