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From: mesard@bbn.com (Wayne Mesard)
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Subject: Re: Selective Dired
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Date: 14 Feb 89 20:34:01 GMT
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In article <50608@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> Ram-Ashwin@cs.yale.edu (Ashwin Ram) writes:
>  I would
>prefer to be able to specify a list of dired-ignored-extensions, similar to
>completion-ignored-extensions, once and for all.  It's easier to ^X^F a
>directory to enter dired instead of typing M-x dired {core,Makefile,*.[ch]}
>each time.
>

Agreed, but would you really want to ignore the same exact file name
patterns *all the time*?  Or more would you have two or three complex
patterns which are each called for fairly frequently (as is implied by
the original article)?  If the latter, then it would be trivial to
define one line functions which call dired with the appropriate complex
pattern.  Heck, you can even bind them to keys, thus restoring the ease
of control key invocation.

>Come to think of it, one would usually want dired-ignored-extensions to be
>the same as completion-ignored-extensions, no?

Not if I was dired'ing in order to, for example, delete backup (tilde)
files.

[And no, I don't know why I'm fighting about this.]

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