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From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>, 23429@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23429: 25.0.90; `dired-do-find-regexp' doc string
Date: Mon, 2 May 2016 21:09:08 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <baf76c23-d59c-7f80-1c20-6d4d8563a299@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ff237938-583b-4ae2-8b5b-08474e53c65a@default>

On 05/02/2016 08:57 PM, Drew Adams wrote:

> If what you mean is that the marked files in a marked _subdirectory_
> are searched, and so on for its marked subdirs, recursively - then
> say so.

Care to propose an exact wording?

> If you don't mean something like that then I cannot imagine what this
> means.  How can a _file_ (marked or not) be searched recursively?

A file can be a directory, in Emacs and in general Unix parlance.

Those marked files that are, are searched recursively. The regular files 
are searched, period.





  reply	other threads:[~2016-05-02 18:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-02 17:57 bug#23429: 25.0.90; `dired-do-find-regexp' doc string Drew Adams
2016-05-02 18:09 ` Dmitry Gutov [this message]
2016-05-02 18:26   ` Drew Adams
2016-05-02 19:58     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-02 20:11       ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-05-02 20:14         ` Drew Adams
2016-05-02 20:42           ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-05-02 20:58             ` Drew Adams
2016-05-02 21:02               ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-05-02 22:45                 ` Drew Adams
2016-05-03 16:16         ` Eli Zaretskii

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