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Re: Dired: Improve symmetry in mark/unmark commands bound to keys
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: Dired: Improve symmetry in mark/unmark commands bound to keys |
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Sat, 24 Sep 2016 22:07:35 +0200 |
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On Sep 24 2016, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>> From: Andreas Schwab <address@hidden>
>> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
>> Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2016 21:46:01 +0200
>>
>> >> There is no need for dired-mark-or-unmark-extension,
>> >> dired-mark-extension should to that already. Since the prefix argument
>> >> has always been useless it is ok to change its meaning, and make it
>> >> consistent with all other dired commands.
>> >
>> > I disagree and object to such a change.
>>
>> But is the only way that makes sense. You objection has no grounds.
>
> I stated my grounds. They might not make sense to you, but they do to
> me.
No, they make absolutely no sense. The prefix was obviously never
intented to be used with this command. The only intented use of the
second argument was the its caller, dired-flag-extension. That is easy
to prove, because before commit 736b582 it wasn't even documented in the
doc string.
Andreas.
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"And now for something completely different."
- Dired: Improve symmetry in mark/unmark commands bound to keys, Tino Calancha, 2016/09/24
- Re: Dired: Improve symmetry in mark/unmark commands bound to keys, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/09/24
- Re: Dired: Improve symmetry in mark/unmark commands bound to keys, Andreas Schwab, 2016/09/24
- Re: Dired: Improve symmetry in mark/unmark commands bound to keys, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/09/24
- Re: Dired: Improve symmetry in mark/unmark commands bound to keys, John Wiegley, 2016/09/25
- Re: Dired: Improve symmetry in mark/unmark commands bound to keys, Tino Calancha, 2016/09/26
- Re: Dired: Improve symmetry in mark/unmark commands bound to keys, Tino Calancha, 2016/09/26
- Re: Dired: Improve symmetry in mark/unmark commands bound to keys, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/09/26
- Re: Dired: Improve symmetry in mark/unmark commands bound to keys, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/09/26
- Re: Dired: Improve symmetry in mark/unmark commands bound to keys, John Wiegley, 2016/09/26
- Re: Dired: Improve symmetry in mark/unmark commands bound to keys, Tino Calancha, 2016/09/26
- Re: Dired: Improve symmetry in mark/unmark commands bound to keys, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/09/26