Re: Introducing 'unrecognized and 'ignored

[Eric S. Raymond]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>:
> VC doesn't really need the info.  It only uses it because of its
> original mistake to use dired (and hence `ls').  Once this mistake is
> corrected it won't need it any more.
> 
> Where else, then?  In simple.el or subr.el or some other global file.
> Then VC backends can add to that variable and so can any other
> elisp package.  This way speedbar doesn't need to refer to any of
> those packages.

I'm not opposed to this, but it's conditional on changing VC so it doesn't use
Dired any more.  RMS is opposed to that; I'd like to know why before I
make a decision.
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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>