From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: up & down keys in Dired [was: M-= in Dired] Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2012 14:01:10 -0400 Message-ID: References: <877gs52845.fsf@gnu.org> <87392tho7g.fsf@gnus.org> <87ehmdahlf.fsf@haselwarter.org> <87zk518wrk.fsf@haselwarter.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1347127281 3908 80.91.229.3 (8 Sep 2012 18:01:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2012 18:01:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Philipp Haselwarter Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 08 20:01:23 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TAPLJ-00030Y-V0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2012 20:01:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60805 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TAPLG-00014Q-Lo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2012 14:01:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:51096) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TAPLE-00014G-Cf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2012 14:01:13 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TAPLD-0005Wf-Fr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2012 14:01:12 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:41636) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TAPLD-0005WR-Cr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2012 14:01:11 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TAPLC-0000HP-60; Sat, 08 Sep 2012 14:01:10 -0400 In-reply-to: <87zk518wrk.fsf@haselwarter.org> (message from Philipp Haselwarter on Fri, 07 Sep 2012 21:21:03 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 208.118.235.10 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:153179 Archived-At: 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. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call