Re: Perplexing dired behavior on "R": "pinging..."

[Damien Wyart]

* Steven Arntson <steven@stevenarntson.com> in gnu.emacs.help:
> In a dired buffer, I "% m" to mark all files containing ".org". The
> first of these, for instance, is called "animals.org". Once the files
> are marked, I intend to move them to a new directory, and I type "R".
> Then the minibuffer says,

> "Pinging animals.org (Non-profit Organization)..."

> And the process stalls. A quick investigation via "C-h k R" tells me
> that the command is still bound to "dired-do-rename". What is getting
> called here, and why? It seems only to happen when I'm trying to
> rename multiple marked files. If I mark only one, things happen as
> they should.

Could you post your ido and ffap settings?

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DW