Re: Introducing 'unrecognized and 'ignored

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

  >     I would go one step further: vc-dired should not be based on dired at
  >     all. 99% of the dired key bindings and functionality are not useful in
  >     vc-dired.
  > 
  > Unifying them is a big advantag
  > 
  > There may be reasons to separate them which outweigh the advantage
  > of unification, but we should see them presented and weigh them
  > before going in that direction.

The disadvantages or using dired: 
 - performance  -- the difference is HUGE
 - clutter - dired has 4 top level menus that are mostly useless in the
            VC context
 - availability of simple key bindings: dired takes most single key
 bindings, forcing vc-dired to use the "v" prefix

 - display flexibility  -- it is much easier to do custom displays as
   needed by VC using ewocs than to retrofit it into dired.  Just look
   at the PCL-CVS display and compare it with vc-dired.

 - future extensibility - VC systems are evolving at a fast pace
   nowadays, being able to easily make changes to accommodate new
   features is very important. 

So IMO, there's no reason to cling onto dired.