From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Dired patch for `i' - bounce between subdir line and its inserted listing Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 02:53:24 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87zlsfkbj6.fsf@jurta.org> References: <002601c88172$2a0dc720$0600a8c0@us.oracle.com> <7dbe73ed0803291813t6d266884w7b0343e995f2c2fb@mail.gmail.com> <87ej9sukpy.fsf@jurta.org> <7dbe73ed0803301503o619ce687l6995e09bbc152fee@mail.gmail.com> <003701c892b8$a99aa060$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1206922142 17524 80.91.229.12 (31 Mar 2008 00:09:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:09:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, 'Mathias Dahl' To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 31 02:09:33 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jg7aY-0002IE-5G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 02:09:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jg7Zw-0000wY-8Y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:08:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jg7YL-0008AI-NA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:07:09 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jg7YJ-00089N-Px for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:07:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jg7YJ-00089C-L6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:07:07 -0400 Original-Received: from relay03.kiev.sovam.com ([62.64.120.201]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jg7YJ-000561-4M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:07:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [83.170.232.243] (helo=smtp.svitonline.com) by relay03.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1Jg7YF-000CwD-4Q; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 03:07:03 +0300 In-Reply-To: <003701c892b8$a99aa060$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Sun, 30 Mar 2008 15:51:58 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-Scanner-Signature: ba97961d419726f65b83e74233c16638 X-DrWeb-checked: yes X-SpamTest-Envelope-From: juri@jurta.org X-SpamTest-Group-ID: 00000000 X-SpamTest-Header: Not Detected X-SpamTest-Info: Profiles 2523 [Mar 31 2008] X-SpamTest-Info: helo_type=3 X-SpamTest-Info: {HEADERS: header Content-Type found without required header Content-Transfer-Encoding} X-SpamTest-Method: none X-SpamTest-Rate: 10 X-SpamTest-Status: Not detected X-SpamTest-Status-Extended: not_detected X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 3.0.0 [0278], KAS30/Release X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 6.x (1) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:93991 Archived-At: > The question is what `i' should do when it is _not_ on a directory line. In > vanilla Emacs without the proposed patch it just raises an error: "Attempt to > insert a non-directory: c:/foo/bar/toto.el". With the patch, it goes to the > parent directory line, if there is one, in the same Dired buffer. Which of these > behaviors is more useful? That's the only question, because that's the only > change the patch makes. I think `i' on a file line should be reserved for something more useful. `i' means "insert", so it makes sense to insert a file into the dired buffer, as some file managers already do. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/