Re: Introducing 'unrecognized and 'ignored

[Dan Nicolaescu]

"Eric S. Raymond" <address@hidden> writes:

  > Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>:
  > > vc-directory calls dired-internal-noselect which does the directory
  > > listing (typically using `ls').
  > 
  > Oh, so we can only get rid of that by no longer using dired at all.
  > Right.  That may be a way to go in the future.  Dan's idea of using
  > ewoc may work well, I'm going to make time to look into it.
  > 
  > > >> That would also allow us to get rid of vc-directory-exclusion-list.
  > > 
  > > > Not unless we want to wire an equivalent back into speedbar.el.
  > > 
  > > That's a good idea in any case: speedbar shouldn't need to rely on VC
  > > for that.
  > 
  > But the alternative is for speedbar and all other modes that have to
  > be VCS-aware to have their own separate lists of special
  > version-control directories.  This seems wrong to me, violating what
  > database people call the SPOT (Single Point Of Truth) rule.  

Unfortunately we have another violation of that:
grep-find-ignored-directories :-(