From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Philipp Haselwarter <philipp@haselwarter.org>
Cc: drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: up & down keys in Dired [was: M-= in Dired]
Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2012 14:01:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1TAPLC-0000HP-60@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zk518wrk.fsf@haselwarter.org> (message from Philipp Haselwarter on Fri, 07 Sep 2012 21:21:03 +0200)
The main reason for the feature of jumping to the file name
was to help make the names easy to see. In 1984 putting the cursor
at the start of the name was the only way to do this.
Today maybe some sort of font-lock highlighting would be more effective.
If this is changed, it would be good to have some convenient command
to move point to the start of the file name on the line. Maybe M-m
should do that.
It might be even better to put point at the start of the name and the
mark at the end of it.
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Dr Richard Stallman
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-08 18:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-07 14:57 M-= in Dired Chong Yidong
2012-09-07 15:01 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-09-07 15:29 ` up & down keys in Dired [was: M-= in Dired] Drew Adams
2012-09-07 17:05 ` M-= in Dired Philipp Haselwarter
2012-09-07 17:14 ` up & down keys in Dired [was: M-= in Dired] Drew Adams
2012-09-07 19:21 ` Philipp Haselwarter
2012-09-07 20:42 ` Drew Adams
2012-09-08 7:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-09 5:16 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-09-08 18:01 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2012-09-07 15:19 ` M-= in Dired Drew Adams
2012-09-07 16:40 ` chad
2012-09-07 16:51 ` Drew Adams
2012-09-08 22:04 ` Juri Linkov
2012-09-08 22:52 ` Drew Adams
2012-09-09 13:02 ` Jambunathan K
2012-09-09 22:20 ` Juri Linkov
2012-09-14 23:45 ` Juri Linkov
2012-09-19 3:15 ` Chong Yidong
2012-09-19 20:10 ` Juri Linkov
2012-09-20 4:28 ` Chong Yidong
2012-09-20 12:30 ` Stefan Monnier
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