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? Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2015 15:54:55 -0500 Message-ID: <40607.80402.459249.22058@gargle.gargle.HOWL> References: <36360.86247.586145.22058@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <69182d70-1f68-4105-9f24-7bbef43e7ecb@default> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1445633790 330 80.91.229.3 (23 Oct 2015 20:56:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2015 20:56:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 21746@debbugs.gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 23 22:56:21 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZpjNe-0007Ck-Vk for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Oct 2015 22:56:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41611 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZpjNe-0007DV-55 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Oct 2015 16:56:06 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46284) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZpjNa-0007DQ-V1 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Oct 2015 16:56:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZpjNa-00040t-5g for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Oct 2015 16:56:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:44526) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZpjNa-00040p-2W for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Oct 2015 16:56:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1ZpjNZ-0007Jl-Te for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Oct 2015 16:56:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: "Roland Winkler" Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2015 20:56:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 21746 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 21746-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B21746.144563371928048 (code B ref 21746); Fri, 23 Oct 2015 20:56:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 21746) by debbugs.gnu.org; 23 Oct 2015 20:55:19 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35228 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1ZpjMt-0007IK-5b for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 23 Oct 2015 16:55:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:36093) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1ZpjMY-0007Hb-Q1 for 21746@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 23 Oct 2015 16:55:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZpjMX-0003e4-LG for 21746@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 23 Oct 2015 16:54:58 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:42786) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZpjMX-0003e0-Hx; Fri, 23 Oct 2015 16:54:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [2602:30a:2e52:d720:317d:3b04:76ec:4ee6] (port=32957 helo=regnitz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ZpjMX-0001qi-6L; Fri, 23 Oct 2015 16:54:57 -0400 In-Reply-To: <69182d70-1f68-4105-9f24-7bbef43e7ecb@default> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). 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:107949 Archived-At: On Fri Oct 23 2015 Drew Adams wrote: > What might be missing for you is this bit of info: > `* c' lets you change the char that is used for a given > mark. So you can, for example, change all `C' marks at > a given moment to, say, `*' marks, and then use any > action on the marked files (which acts on `*'-marked > files). Or change it to `D' and then delete the flagged > files. Thank you, indeed I was missing this piece of info. I am just wondering: how often are you using this? Is this a feature which should be exposed to all emacs beginners? If yes, it needs to be documented better. > Dunno how much of this is documented in the manual, but once you > look at `C-h m' and then its mention of `* c', you can pretty much > imagine how it can be put to good use. Yes, you are probably right. dired-change-marks bound to `* c' seems to be the command that needs to be advertised better in order to make these marks useful. (In my every-day usage of dired, I still do not see actual benefits from this feature.) Roland