From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs 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 Message-ID: <007e01c9799c$d6bdecc0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> Reply-To: Drew Adams , 1947@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1232305498 4988 80.91.229.12 (18 Jan 2009 19:04:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 19:04:58 +0000 (UTC) To: Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 18 20:06:06 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LOcxI-0006rZ-Ji for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Jan 2009 20:05:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40314 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LOcw1-0000Uq-3E for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Jan 2009 14:03:49 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LOcvn-0000JY-5o for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Jan 2009 14:03:35 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LOcvj-0000Ft-TA for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Jan 2009 14:03:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=55353 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LOcvj-0000Fp-MW for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Jan 2009 14:03:31 -0500 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu ([138.23.92.77]:49557) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LOcvi-0002h0-W2 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Jan 2009 14:03:31 -0500 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu (rzlab.ucr.edu [127.0.0.1]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id n0IJ3RLJ013546; Sun, 18 Jan 2009 11:03:27 -0800 Original-Received: (from debbugs@localhost) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id n0IIo3PO009931; Sun, 18 Jan 2009 10:50:03 -0800 X-Loop: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com Resent-From: "Drew Adams" Resent-To: bug-submit-list@donarmstrong.com Resent-CC: Emacs Bugs Resent-Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 18:50:03 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com X-Emacs-PR-Message: report 1947 X-Emacs-PR-Package: emacs X-Emacs-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by submit@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com id=B.12323042888651 (code B ref -1); Sun, 18 Jan 2009 18:50:03 +0000 Original-Received: (at submit) by emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; 18 Jan 2009 18:44:48 +0000 X-Spam-Bayes: score:0.5 Bayes not run. spammytokens:Tokens not available. hammytokens:Tokens not available. Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org (fencepost.gnu.org [140.186.70.10]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id n0IIije1008645 for ; Sun, 18 Jan 2009 10:44:46 -0800 Original-Received: from mx10.gnu.org ([199.232.76.166]:46611) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1LOccA-0004fq-Fb for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Jan 2009 13:43:18 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LOcdX-0000by-9C for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Jan 2009 13:44:44 -0500 Original-Received: from acsinet11.oracle.com ([141.146.126.233]:23347) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LOcdW-0000bB-Ge for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Jan 2009 13:44:42 -0500 Original-Received: from acsinet13.oracle.com (acsinet13.oracle.com [141.146.126.235]) by acsinet11.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id n0IIkK6m013442 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Sun, 18 Jan 2009 18:46:21 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt702.oracle.com (acsmt702.oracle.com [141.146.40.80]) by acsinet13.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id n0IIjGQD020263 for ; Sun, 18 Jan 2009 18:45:17 GMT Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/24.5.128.33) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Sun, 18 Jan 2009 18:44:33 +0000 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3350 thread-index: Acl5nNYxgP994XM9Sp+63P5cNU7dBw== X-Source-IP: acsmt702.oracle.com [141.146.40.80] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A09020A.49737893.016D:SCFSTAT928724,ss=1,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Resent-Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 14:03:34 -0500 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:24255 gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs:23712 Archived-At: 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'