bug#56754: 28.1; Please move general stuff from `ffap.el' to `files.el'

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

> One example of such a function: `ffap-all-subdirs' (and its internal
> helper function `ffap-all-subdirs-loop').
>
> Yes, a library that doesn't want to require `ffap.el' could always get
> the same effect using more general file utilities - in this case
> `directory-files-recursively' (matching a vacuous regexp and providing a
> predicate).  But something like `ffap-all-subdirs' is convenient for
> doing just what it does.

I don't think ffap-all-subdirs is generally useful:

---
Directories beginning with \".\" are ignored, and directory symlinks
are listed but never searched (to avoid loops).
---

It's well-suited for what ffap does, though, which is why it lives in
that file.

Closing.