From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: dired-mark Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:11:22 -0500 Message-ID: References: <200711292115.07889.andreas.roehler@online.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1196435506 24174 80.91.229.12 (30 Nov 2007 15:11:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:11:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Tassilo, Horn , Andreas =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=F6hler?= , Drew Adams , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andreas Schwab Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 30 16:11:54 2007 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 1Iy7Wq-0002GQ-QR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:11:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Iy7Wb-0003jX-0K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:11:29 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Iy7WW-0003iG-Sl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:11:24 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Iy7WW-0003hv-Bz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:11:24 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Iy7WW-0003ho-8u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:11:24 -0500 Original-Received: from tomts25.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.188] helo=tomts25-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Iy7WW-00082u-1l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:11:24 -0500 Original-Received: from toip5.srvr.bell.ca ([209.226.175.88]) by tomts25-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <20071130151122.WMDM19497.tomts25-srv.bellnexxia.net@toip5.srvr.bell.ca> for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:11:22 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ah4FAFq2T0dGN4zh/2dsb2JhbACBWw Original-Received: from bas1-montreal42-1178045665.dsl.bell.ca (HELO pastel.home) ([70.55.140.225]) by toip5.srvr.bell.ca with ESMTP; 30 Nov 2007 10:13:39 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id A61B27F62; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:11:22 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Andreas Schwab's message of "Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:30:39 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 8 (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:84358 Archived-At: >>> Should you know a precise case where marking the "." >>> and ".." in the dired-buffer are useful, I would like >>> to read about that. >> >> E.g. when you want to change the permissions? > Incidentally, dired-do-chmod refuses to operate on "." and "..". Sounds like a bug to me, Stefan "who admits to using zsh rather than dired"