From: "David House" <dmhouse@gmail.com>
To: "Mathias Dahl" <mathias.dahl@gmail.com>
Cc: "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>,
Antoine Levitt <smeuuh@gmail.com>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Patch] Behavior of dired when there already is a dired buffer of the same directory
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 19:00:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ebe43d680809011100w524c7697g78f9c8e681de9b51@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7dbe73ed0809011047o66e626f2ja5d6853383ed0626@mail.gmail.com>
2008/9/1 Mathias Dahl <mathias.dahl@gmail.com>:
> Another case against it, maybe even a better one: If you are, like me,
> using the toggle and kill commands in Dired buffers, maybe together
> with % m and % g, you would be really angry if you lost a surgically
> selected batch of files because the buffer was refreshed.
I see no reason to lose marks on a buffer refresh, unless you marked a
file which no longer exists (which is presumably the right thing to do
anyway, since you can't do anything with that file).
--
-David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-01 18:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-31 22:50 [Patch] Behavior of dired when there already is a dired buffer of the same directory Antoine Levitt
2008-08-31 23:02 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-01 17:47 ` Mathias Dahl
2008-09-01 18:00 ` David House [this message]
2008-09-01 0:36 ` Miles Bader
2008-09-01 0:53 ` Antoine Levitt
2008-09-01 1:11 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-01 1:26 ` Antoine Levitt
2008-09-01 2:47 ` Miles Bader
2008-09-01 3:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-01 7:25 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-02 1:08 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-02 14:00 ` Antoine Levitt
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