* dired: it is actually a marked file off the screen you will act on
@ 2005-02-15 22:45 Dan Jacobson
0 siblings, 0 replies; only message in thread
From: Dan Jacobson @ 2005-02-15 22:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
Try this: do dired on a large directory of lots of similarly named
files. Now mark one of the files with "m", and move it off the screen
with a C-v. Now use ! (dired-do-shell-command) on the file under the
cursor. Note how easy it is to think that the file under the cursor
is the one to be acted upon!
Therefore some visual extra warning should appear when
dired-do-shell-command will act on a marked file and not the one under
the cursor.
Yeah, we are prompted with the file name, but like I said, suppose
they are very similar.
Same for any dired command that plans to act on marked files.
Some kind of unignorable minibuffer signal.
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] only message in thread
only message in thread, other threads:[~2005-02-15 22:45 UTC | newest]
Thread overview: (only message) (download: mbox.gz follow: Atom feed
-- links below jump to the message on this page --
2005-02-15 22:45 dired: it is actually a marked file off the screen you will act on Dan Jacobson
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).