From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Roland Winkler" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#21746: 24.5; purpose of dired-keep-marker-copy? 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X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:108009 Archived-At: On Sat Oct 24 2015 Drew Adams wrote: > I did. But you apparently don't want to recognize this use as > being useful. I'll repeat it, just in case you didn't hear it: > > To distinguish/identify the files that were copied. And to do > so in a way that they can be further acted on in Dired. IOW, > in a Dired-consistent way. Both parts of this are useful: > (1) easily see which were copied and (2) easily act on them > or on any subset of them. #2 requires #1, but #1 is useful > on its own. > > How else could Dired distinguish the copied files? It shouldn't. Marks are for new actions in the future, not for old ones from the past. If you nonetheless like inconsistent behavior, don't make it the default.