From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: <emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#1947: 23.0.60; Please document use of `dired' with an explicit file list
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 10:44:47 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <007e01c9799c$d6bdecc0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> (raw)
As far as I can tell, the use of `dired' with an explicit list of file
and directory names is undocumented (beyond the source code). It is
mentioned in neither the Emacs manual nor the Elisp manual.
This is a useful feature - at least as useful as many of the other
Dired features that are documented. Questions about being able to
open Dired with an explicit list of files from different directories
are asked from time to time on help-gnu-emacs.
The logical place to document this is in the Emacs manual, node `Dired
Enter'. That's so, even though to use this feature you must have a
list of file names. A simple example using `defvar' or `setq' to
define such a list would be sufficient - there are similar simple uses
of Emacs Lisp in the Emacs manual.
In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
of 2009-01-04 on LENNART-69DE564
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4) --no-opt --cflags -Ic:/g/include
-fno-crossjumping'
next reply other threads:[~2009-01-18 18:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-18 18:44 Drew Adams [this message]
2009-01-20 3:20 ` bug#1947: 23.0.60; Please document use of `dired' with an explicit file list Kevin Rodgers
2011-07-10 14:58 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-10 17:36 ` Drew Adams
2011-07-10 17:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-10 18:30 ` Drew Adams
2011-07-10 18:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-10 20:07 ` Drew Adams
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