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: find-alternate-file in dired isn't alternative enough Date: 30 Jan 2003 12:40:22 +0800 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87hebrntc9.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 1043907410 2191 80.91.224.249 (30 Jan 2003 06:16:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 06:16:50 +0000 (UTC) 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 18e80G-0000Yz-00 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 07:16:48 +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 18e81f-0005UI-06 for gnu-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 01:18:15 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18e81Y-0005U6-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 01:18:08 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18e81Q-0005O8-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 01:18:07 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18e81P-0005NL-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 01:18:00 -0500 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18e7za-0000XG-00 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 07:16:06 +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 18e7zX-0000X3-00 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 07:16:03 +0100 Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 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:4347 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:4347 Remember how C-x C-v was supposed to get files afresh, sweeping away any badness, even cursor position, as Eli once beamingly reconfirmed here for me. Well, it turns out find-alternate-file if used in a dired situation doesn't forget the junk: $ emacs /tmp s C-x C-v RET C-u s u RET C-x C-v . RET even the misleading ls -tu format is particularly not swept away. sure, hit C-u s and clean it up yourself, you will say. But that's not the point. -- http://jidanni.org/ Taiwan(04)25854780