Re: Friendlier dired experience [CODE INCLUDED]

[Jean Louis]

* Boruch Baum <boruch_baum@gmx.com> [2020-11-03 14:15]:
> On 2020-11-03 13:54, Jean Louis wrote:
> > * Boruch Baum <boruch_baum@gmx.com> [2020-11-03 13:45]:
> > > I've just published an elisp package that extends and configures
> > > dired-mode with features that many people have come to take for granted
> > > in other programming languages. For the source code and the detailed
> > > description, see: http://github.com/Boruch-Baum/emacs-diredc
> > >
> > > If the project is interested in it, I can assign the copyright.
> >
> > I would test it.
> >
> > For some reason I cannot M-x package-install-from-buffer
> 
> Thanks. The instructions say to evaluate the buffer. Does that work?

It works, but it does not give me safety feeling.

It broke my console, I could not see nothing any more, could not
escape from Emacs. On X it is creating new frame.

- test it on console
- test it in EXWM

> > Error:
> > package-read-from-string: Can’t read whole string
> 
> I can't reproduce this in emacs 26.1, but I do get the error in
> emacs-snapshot. I don't have emacs 27, which may be what most users in
> the field will be using. What version were you using?

Like latest git from yesterday maybe. Sorry for that.


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