From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Filipp Gunbin <fgunbin@fastmail.fm>
Cc: 20195@debbugs.gnu.org, Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
Subject: bug#20195: 25.0.50; Let Dired commands such as `dired-do-search' (`A') use prefix arg
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2015 07:01:15 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a9e89073-b1a3-4e22-a84a-bf954d2cdfb0@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m27ftuwt84.fsf@fastmail.fm>
> > See above. There are *many* ways to do the same thing in Dired (and
> > elsewhere in Emacs). In and of itself, eliminating such "duplication"
> > is a silly goal (IMHO).
>
> But it's rather convenient to keep in memory that:
> 1) First mark files you want to process. To augment mark behaviour
> (e.g. mark all files in a subdir) specify prefix arg to the mark
> command or use a corresponding specific command.
> 2) Perform search/replace. To augment search/replace behavior (like
> toggle word searching) you have to specify prefix argument to the
> search/replace command.
Yes, there are multiple ways to do the same thing in Dired. Nothing
in this enhancement will prevent you from always doing things the way
you prefer.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-02 14:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-25 3:56 bug#20195: 25.0.50; Let Dired commands such as `dired-do-search' (`A') use prefix arg Drew Adams
2015-03-25 21:50 ` Juri Linkov
2015-03-25 23:08 ` Drew Adams
2015-03-31 20:33 ` Juri Linkov
2015-03-31 21:22 ` Drew Adams
2015-03-31 21:54 ` Filipp Gunbin
2015-04-01 0:36 ` Drew Adams
2015-04-02 13:32 ` Filipp Gunbin
2015-04-02 14:01 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2022-02-03 21:19 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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