Re: Making it easier to enable dired-x

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Why don't you think it should be enabled by default?

> Well I've never really used it, so take this with a grain of salt, but
> after tidying it up a bit recently, the impression I got was that it
> contains a few useful features and a lot of cruft.

> Eg dired-filename-at-point is not massively different to ffap and
> thing-at-pt, stuff like "hands-off-my-x-keys" seems clunky, dired-x's
> local variables are now replaced by dir-locals, there's 50 lines and 3
> commands dedicated just to deleting TeX and patch temp files, etc.

> Plus it has its own manual, which is ~ 80% of the length of dired.texi,
> which would have to be merged in somehow.

I tend to agree.  I would welcome adding the remaining useful
functionality of dired-x into dired and then making dired-x obsolete.


        Stefan