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Re: Dired: Improve symmetry in mark/unmark commands bound to keys
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Tino Calancha |
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Re: Dired: Improve symmetry in mark/unmark commands bound to keys |
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Tue, 27 Sep 2016 01:30:35 +0900 (JST) |
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Alpine 2.20 (DEB 67 2015-01-07) |
On Mon, 26 Sep 2016, John Wiegley wrote:
Tino Calancha <address@hidden> writes:
In addition, i don't think you should unconditionaly object just because Eli
object.
Eli and I happen to agree on this: We don't want to change a long-standing
feature, however poorly conceived, without greater conviction. I commented in
the bug thread on the things I'd like to see happen next.
Also, you shouldn't query Richard for his opinion, you should query everyone.
Richard is not going to countermand our decision; convince us and the
community that it's wise to make this change, and we will. So for I think only
5 people total have participated in this discussion.
Sorry for that. I missunderstood your request. I asked him after you
wrote in the bug report:
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1. Begin a discussion on emacs-devel about the behavior of this command.
Solicit the wisdom of other old-timers on that list. Present your case
dispassionately, in terms of what we gain from such a change.
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I am still new here and i don't know who are the old-timers. The
first comes to my mind of course is Richard. I wish to ask S. Kremer,
that would be great, but i have never seen him in this list so i am afraid
he could pass away (?). If that is the case, someone could be hurt if i
try to contact him.
About beging a discussion on emacs-devel about this. Well, i guess we
already have this one: people can give us input here. If we open another
thread we will have 1 bug report + 2 emacs-dev thread basically talking
the same. Not too tidy.
I believe Eli has proposed a solution that offers a middle ground. Can we move
to discussing that?
Yes, we can talk about that.
Eli suggestion would be consistent with Dired if, for instance:
I) C-u * . el RET
;; unmark
II) C-u C-u * . el RET
;; prompt for the marker char.
IMO we should not put extra care in one hypothetical user X who
spend 22 years doing:
C-u 65 * . el RET
I mean, we should not invert the number of C-u's in I) II), because:
1) It's impossible such X user does exists (at least in this
Universe); and in case sh?e does exist i wish i will never face
this person at night in a lonely dark street; or i would have a drink
with her to explain that we are in XXI century, and now the computers
accept text when they prompt for a character. Who knows, maybe after
that she pay the drinks.
2) We private zillions of 'real' Dired users to naturally unmark files
by extension as they like to do with other Dired marking commands.
- Re: Dired: Improve symmetry in mark/unmark commands bound to keys, (continued)
- 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 <=
- 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, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/09/25
- Re: Dired: Improve symmetry in mark/unmark commands bound to keys, Andreas Schwab, 2016/09/25
- Re: Dired: Improve symmetry in mark/unmark commands bound to keys, Andreas Schwab, 2016/09/25
- Re: Dired: Improve symmetry in mark/unmark commands bound to keys, Andreas Schwab, 2016/09/25
- Re: Dired: Improve symmetry in mark/unmark commands bound to keys, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/09/25
- Re: Dired: Improve symmetry in mark/unmark commands bound to keys, Andreas Schwab, 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, Tino Calancha, 2016/09/24