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Re: dired-diff ignores m marked files
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: dired-diff ignores m marked files |
Date: |
Thu, 3 May 2001 11:02:46 +0300 |
On 3 May 2001, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> emacs> = runs the command dired-diff
> emacs> Compare file at point with file FILE using `diff'.
> emacs> FILE defaults to the file at the mark.
>
> mmm, ok, but if you talk like that you might confuse users with
> the kind of marks from
Thanks, I made this clear in the command's doc string.
> Which brings up the point: if I have an m marked file and I hit = on
> another file, = should have some interaction with that m marked file,
> just like it does with the set-mark marked file today. Should it take
> preference to the set-mark marked file is probably certain. Should
> the interaction be the same as when with set-mark marked files? I
> guess so.
I don't know; perhaps if there's only one marked file. However,
dired-mark is normally used to mark many files, in which case it would
probably not useful for dired-diff to look at them.