From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#23642: 24.5; Dired Line Movement, Region Handling Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2016 00:16:35 +0300 Organization: LINKOV.NET Message-ID: <87wpm3ibf0.fsf@mail.linkov.net> References: <79ec4788-6eea-e9a1-afeb-2bbb278cba8e@gmail.com> <878tyr1bz7.fsf@mail.linkov.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1465161517 19348 80.91.229.3 (5 Jun 2016 21:18:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2016 21:18:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 23642-done@debbugs.gnu.org To: Michael Cain Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 05 23:18:27 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1b9fR7-0006kq-FT for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Jun 2016 23:18:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38651 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b9fR6-0005Lm-Op for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Jun 2016 17:18:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34107) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b9fQy-0005Ie-04 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jun 2016 17:18:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b9fQp-0002Hk-H9 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jun 2016 17:18:10 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:43610) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b9fQp-0002Ha-FA for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jun 2016 17:18:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1b9fQp-0008Sf-Bc for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jun 2016 17:18:03 -0400 Resent-From: Juri Linkov Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2016 21:18:03 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: cc-closed 23642 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Mail-Followup-To: 23642@debbugs.gnu.org, juri@linkov.net, cain.michael1@gmail.com Original-Received: via spool by 23642-done@debbugs.gnu.org id=D23642.146516144732444 (code D ref 23642); Sun, 05 Jun 2016 21:18:03 +0000 Original-Received: (at 23642-done) by debbugs.gnu.org; 5 Jun 2016 21:17:27 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55941 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1b9fQF-0008RC-8V for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jun 2016 17:17:27 -0400 Original-Received: from sub3.mail.dreamhost.com ([69.163.253.7]:58875 helo=homiemail-a101.g.dreamhost.com) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1b9fQD-0008Qu-Go for 23642-done@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jun 2016 17:17:25 -0400 Original-Received: from homiemail-a101.g.dreamhost.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by homiemail-a101.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 151BB117E06A; Sun, 5 Jun 2016 14:17:25 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost.linkov.net (62.65.224.151.cable.starman.ee [62.65.224.151]) (Authenticated sender: jurta@jurta.org) by homiemail-a101.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 434E3117E065; Sun, 5 Jun 2016 14:17:24 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <878tyr1bz7.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (Juri Linkov's message of "Tue, 31 May 2016 00:18:20 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:119131 Archived-At: >> (I'm not sure if this is actually a bug or not, just because Dired is >> used so frequently and I assume someone probably would've mentioned it >> by now. Hopefully this feedback will be helpful anyway) >> >> I find myself using the writable feature of Dired rather frequently, b= ut >> one default of Dired's up/down movement (specifically the shift >> selection in Transient Mark mode) is difficult to work around. That is= , >> I very often try to hold down shift and proceed down lines to create a >> region, but this doesn't work by default. >> >> I've temporarily solved this by making wrapper functions around >> `dired-next-line' and `dired-previous-line' that handle the shift >> selection, but it also works to add an additional "^" argument to the >> existing "p" in those functions. >> >> Thanks! :) > > You are right. Shift-selection should be supported in WDired by this p= atch. Thanks for the suggestion. Pushed to master. > BTW, do you think that in WDired it would be more useful to select > rectangular regions because file names are organized in columns. > Then, for example, =E2=80=98downcase-region=E2=80=99 and =E2=80=98upcas= e-region=E2=80=99 will work > on the selected regions, not fail are they do now in WDired.