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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 11571@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#11571: 24.0.97; doc string of `dired-get-subdir-min'
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2019 13:54:55 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7374f5d9-6d88-4351-bd63-b526ea0d3486@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878sozighj.fsf@skangas.se>

> I therefore think it's safe to obsolete this function, like in the
> below patch.  Comments?

It's OK by me.  Thx.
___

The use of cdr is clear enough, as long as you
understand what `dired-subdir-alist' is.

But that could be clearer. 

`C-h v dired-subdir-alist' says:

 Association list of subdirectories and their buffer positions.
 Each subdirectory has an element: (DIRNAME . STARTMARKER).
 ...

Directories don't have buffer positions.

It would be clearer to say "listed subdirectories".
It's not about subdirectories.  It's about those
subdirs that are listed in the Dired buffer, and
STARTMARKER is the buffer position where such a
_listing_ starts.

The buffer position of a subdirectory isn't clear.
The buffer position of a subdirectory listing is
clear.





  reply	other threads:[~2019-11-01 20:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-27 21:37 bug#11571: 24.0.97; doc string of `dired-get-subdir-min' Drew Adams
2012-05-27 21:41 ` Drew Adams
2012-09-16 23:49   ` Drew Adams
2014-02-09  3:59   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2014-02-09 22:25     ` Drew Adams
2019-11-01 18:44     ` Stefan Kangas
2019-11-01 20:54       ` Drew Adams [this message]
2019-11-05 15:09         ` Stefan Kangas
2019-11-05 16:21           ` Drew Adams
2019-11-08 13:30             ` Stefan Kangas
2019-11-08 18:04               ` Drew Adams
2019-11-10 21:17               ` Stefan Kangas
2019-11-02 14:51       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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