From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Jacobson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: dired "!" hints baffled by multiple sources of same answer Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 05:32:42 +0800 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87bs0t1mkl.fsf@jidanni.org> References: <87bs0x420f.fsf@jidanni.org> Reply-To: Dan Jacobson NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1046649825 22328 80.91.224.249 (3 Mar 2003 00:03:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 00:03:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs21@packages.debian.org Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18pdQl-0005ny-00 for ; Mon, 03 Mar 2003 01:03:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18pdQD-0008W4-03 for gnu-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Mar 2003 19:03:09 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18pdPV-00089J-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Mar 2003 19:02:25 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18pdNz-0007fD-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Mar 2003 19:00:54 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18pdNq-0007Ph-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Mar 2003 19:00:42 -0500 Original-Received: from root by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18pdNQ-0005fN-00 for ; Mon, 03 Mar 2003 01:00:16 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18pdLl-0005am-00 for ; Mon, 03 Mar 2003 00:58:33 +0100 Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2 (i386-pc-linux-gnu) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:4541 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:4541 DJ> In dired, mark 3 *.gifs and hit ! DJ> ! on * [3 files]: [xloadimage] RMS> That isn't part of standard Dired. Excuses, excuses. Does not dired-x-submit-report send to this same mailing list? Indeed, ;; Maintainer: FSF (unless Dodd can be found) 4 lines matching "please" in buffer dired-x.el. 37:;; Please, PLEASE, *PLEASE* see the info pages. 57:;; bind some dired keys. *Please* see the info pages for more details. 59:;; *Please* see the info pages for more details. 83:;; the end of any of the variable names, and hit C-h v [RET]. *Please* see OK, I would but the dired-x Shell Command Guessing etc. info node are not in the emacs info tree but instead next to it, at least on debian. There it says "Dired only tries to guess a command for a single file, never for a list of marked files." but in fact it does, if the marked files have the same suffix it seems. But if it plans to use xloadimage on .jpg's and use xloadimage on .gif's, then it should use xloadimage when presented with a list that are all .jpg's and .gif's. -- http://jidanni.org/ Taiwan(04)25854780