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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 22457@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22457: 24.5; [PATCH] `dired-mark-if' should not count non-changes
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2019 09:06:46 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <81cf46a6-c57a-4f90-a203-7e963b232f6a@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3d0j1651p.fsf@gnus.org>

> And why is dired-mark-if a macro in the first place?  It's pretty long
> to be a macro; it could be rewritten as a function that take a
> predicate...

(Length of a macro's code makes no difference, if
the code using it is compiled.)

I would say leave this sleeping dog lie...

---

The PREDICATE arg is really code (a sexp), not
a predicate (function).

See also the use of `dired-mark-if' in command
`dired-mark-sexp' (in `dired-x.el').  See the
doc string of that command.

There too the PREDICATE arg is code (a sexp),
not a predicate.  And there you can use a set
of predefined variables in the "PREDICATE"
sexp that gets evaluated and then passed to
`dired-mark-if'.

See also the uses of `dired-mark-if' in
`dired-aux.el', where an anonymous function
is constructed using the macro.

This is the way things have been since about
Day One of Emacs.

Could things have been coded differently for
this?  Likely.  Should they be?  Doubtful.





      reply	other threads:[~2019-06-25 16:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-24 18:05 bug#22457: 24.5; [PATCH] `dired-mark-if' should not count non-changes Drew Adams
2019-06-25 14:42 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-06-25 15:33   ` Drew Adams
2019-06-25 15:44     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-06-25 22:47       ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-06-25 22:53         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-06-25 23:02           ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-06-25 23:12             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-06-25 23:26             ` Drew Adams
2019-06-25 23:30               ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-06-26  0:00                 ` Drew Adams
2019-06-26  8:50               ` Andreas Schwab
2019-06-26 13:32                 ` Drew Adams
2019-06-25 23:17         ` Drew Adams
2019-06-25 23:28           ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-06-25 15:46     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-06-25 16:06       ` Drew Adams [this message]

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