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bug#41097: 28.0.50; (dired-toggle-marks) not working after copy
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Michael Heerdegen |
Subject: |
bug#41097: 28.0.50; (dired-toggle-marks) not working after copy |
Date: |
Mon, 11 May 2020 02:36:29 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> > Because t toggles marks, and C is not a mark, it's a flag.
>
> This is not true. Let's please not go there.
But if you think so (and I somewhat agree), isn't then the first
sentence in the docstring that Eli didn't touch:
"Toggle marks: marked files become unmarked, and vice versa."
even more confusing? I guess Eli wanted to avoid a sentence like "and
files marked with marks other than the * mark don't count as marked."
But the inconsistency goes much further, we say that commands operate on
the "marked" files, but we mean only the *-marked files.
So I guess the terminology is "marked with" applies to any mark and
"marked" only to files marked with *, and "unmarked" means "doesn't have
any mark". Oh dear, it's like learning English modal verbs.
I think we can be more specific in the docstring, and I also don't like
to introduce the second term "flag" here since it is somewhat linked to
deletion indeed, and it's meaning is as fluent as "mark" - that doesn't
help.
Ok, would something like this be a compromise?
- Toggle marks: marked files become unmarked, and vice versa.
- Files marked with other flags (such as `D') are not affected.
+ Toggle marks: marked files become unmarked, and vice versa.
+ This means that files marked with `*' are unmarked and files that don't
+ have any mark are marked with `*'. Files marked with any
+ characters other than `*' are uneffected.
(the term "marker character" is already used in the manual.)
Regards,
Michael.
- bug#41097: 28.0.50; (dired-toggle-marks) not working after copy, (continued)
- bug#41097: 28.0.50; (dired-toggle-marks) not working after copy, Jean Louis, 2020/05/11
- bug#41097: 28.0.50; (dired-toggle-marks) not working after copy, Drew Adams, 2020/05/11
- bug#41097: 28.0.50; (dired-toggle-marks) not working after copy, Jean Louis, 2020/05/20
- bug#41097: 28.0.50; (dired-toggle-marks) not working after copy, Drew Adams, 2020/05/20
- bug#41097: 28.0.50; (dired-toggle-marks) not working after copy, Robert Pluim, 2020/05/20
- bug#41097: 28.0.50; (dired-toggle-marks) not working after copy, Richard Stallman, 2020/05/11
- bug#41097: 28.0.50; (dired-toggle-marks) not working after copy, Jean Louis, 2020/05/10
- bug#41097: 28.0.50; (dired-toggle-marks) not working after copy, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/05/10
- bug#41097: 28.0.50; (dired-toggle-marks) not working after copy, Drew Adams, 2020/05/10
- bug#41097: 28.0.50; (dired-toggle-marks) not working after copy, Jean Louis, 2020/05/10
- bug#41097: 28.0.50; (dired-toggle-marks) not working after copy,
Michael Heerdegen <=
- bug#41097: 28.0.50; (dired-toggle-marks) not working after copy, Drew Adams, 2020/05/10
- bug#41097: 28.0.50; (dired-toggle-marks) not working after copy, Michael Heerdegen, 2020/05/11
- bug#41097: 28.0.50; (dired-toggle-marks) not working after copy, Drew Adams, 2020/05/11
- bug#41097: 28.0.50; (dired-toggle-marks) not working after copy, Arthur Miller, 2020/05/11
- bug#41097: 28.0.50; (dired-toggle-marks) not working after copy, Drew Adams, 2020/05/11