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* bug#21746: 24.5; purpose of dired-keep-marker-copy?
@ 2015-10-23 19:44 Roland Winkler
  2015-10-23 20:30 ` Drew Adams
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 37+ messages in thread
From: Roland Winkler @ 2015-10-23 19:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 21746


While I have used emacs for many years, I have never figured out a
reason why copying a file in dired gives the copied file a marker
`C'.  So today I wanted to find out, but I failed: the docstring of
dired-do-copy does not explain it, dired-keep-marker-copy does not
explain it, and in the emacs info manual I could not find anything
useful either.  What is the purpose of this feature?  It appears to
me that it is a feature for experts which is at best distracting for
ordinary users.  I suggest: either explain it somewhere that is not
too hard to find or give dired-keep-marker-copy a default value of
nil (and similar for dired-keep-marker-hardlink,
dired-keep-marker-symlink).



In GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.10.8)
 of 2015-05-27 on regnitz
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11600000
System Description:	Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS





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2015-10-23 19:44 bug#21746: 24.5; purpose of dired-keep-marker-copy? Roland Winkler
2015-10-23 20:30 ` Drew Adams
2015-10-23 20:54   ` Roland Winkler
2015-10-23 21:57     ` Drew Adams
2015-10-24  1:20       ` Roland Winkler
2015-10-24  8:04         ` Drew Adams
2015-10-24  8:11           ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-24  9:35           ` Andreas Schwab
2015-10-24 16:05             ` Drew Adams
2015-10-24 16:14               ` Drew Adams
2015-10-24 20:51               ` Roland Winkler
2015-10-24 21:09                 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-10-24 21:34                   ` Drew Adams
2015-10-24 22:00                     ` Andreas Schwab
2015-10-24 21:30                 ` Drew Adams
2015-10-25  0:15                   ` Michael Heerdegen
2015-10-25  4:01                   ` Roland Winkler
2015-10-25  5:12                     ` Drew Adams
2015-10-25 17:40                       ` Richard Stallman
2015-10-25 12:55                     ` Andreas Schwab
2015-10-25 18:40                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-28 11:50                       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2015-10-29  0:14               ` Juri Linkov
2015-10-29  0:37                 ` Michael Heerdegen
2015-10-29  0:53                 ` Drew Adams
2015-10-24  5:26       ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-24  6:10   ` Eli Zaretskii
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2015-10-24  8:04         ` Drew Adams
2015-10-24  8:13           ` Eli Zaretskii
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2015-10-24  8:17             ` Drew Adams
2015-10-24  8:25               ` Eli Zaretskii
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2015-10-24  8:21   ` Drew Adams
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2015-10-24  8:34       ` Drew Adams
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2015-10-24 16:05           ` Drew Adams
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2015-10-24  8:30   ` Drew Adams

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