From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: RE: node Subdirectories in Dired in Emacs manual Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 19:19:23 -0800 Message-ID: <000001c87e6f$b6126e70$0600a8c0@us.oracle.com> References: <003701c87e52$e730eb20$0600a8c0@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1204687264 12900 80.91.229.12 (5 Mar 2008 03:21:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 03:21:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: "'Andreas Schwab'" Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 05 04:21:29 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JWkC2-00075E-Ed for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 04:21:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JWkBV-0002oM-5w for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Mar 2008 22:20:49 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JWkBK-0002km-LL for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Mar 2008 22:20:38 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JWkBH-0002kM-Ko for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Mar 2008 22:20:37 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JWkBH-0002kJ-Eq for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Mar 2008 22:20:35 -0500 Original-Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JWkBG-0007Hz-W1 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Mar 2008 22:20:35 -0500 Original-Received: from agmgw1.us.oracle.com (agmgw1.us.oracle.com [152.68.180.212]) by rgminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.6) with ESMTP id m253KWwX027514; Tue, 4 Mar 2008 20:20:32 -0700 Original-Received: from acsmt350.oracle.com (acsmt350.oracle.com [141.146.40.150]) by agmgw1.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.0/Switch-3.2.0) with ESMTP id m23Hw4rn015357; Tue, 4 Mar 2008 20:20:31 -0700 Original-Received: from inet-141-146-46-1.oracle.com by acsmt351.oracle.com with ESMTP id 3599997911204687159; Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:19:19 -0800 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/141.144.74.81) by bhmail.oracle.com (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:19:19 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: Thread-Index: Ach+W07YQIAwHXAxRoS+6qm0By14jQAEYqUg X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:17654 Archived-At: > > This text in the node is misleading or unintelligible: > > > > If the subdirectory's contents are already present in the > > buffer, the `i' command just moves to it. > > > > I tried `i' everywhere in the buffer, and it did nothing of the > > kind...except if the cursor is over the subdir line of the parent > > directory. That needs to be said. > > That's exactly what the preceding paragraph says. Not at all. Hitting `i' *WHERE* just moves to *WHERE*? It says nothing about where the cursor is when you hit `i', in order to have this effect. And even the effect is unclear: "moves to it" is ambiguous - what is "it"? For that matter, the "and moves there" of the previous paragraph is also unclear - moves where? Inserts the directory "and moves *THERE*"? This is all poorly phrased. Perhaps you are handicapped by knowing the behavior. Try reading it from the standpoint of someone who doesn't already know what the behavior is. You'll see that the description given doesn't help.