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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com>, foudfou <foudil.newbie@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: [PATCH] * lisp/ibuffer.el: Add ability to (un-)mark or delete buffers in the region.
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 11:10:06 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0f64fa19-5920-4556-850a-89193675033b@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2zixcriie.fsf@newartisans.com>

> Foudil, why does this patch rely on the use of the region to select a group
> of buffers, rather than the existing functionality of using 'm' to mark
> buffer(s) for subsequent action? This is a pattern used by many other modes,
> such as dired.
> 
> In my brief testing, dired does not allow aggregate actions based on regions
> either. Therefore, since ibuffer advertises itself as "a dired for buffers"
> --
> and likewise, proced for processes -- the method for dealing with aggregate
> targets should be kept consistent.
> 
> Thus, I'm inclined to reject this patch in favor of the existing "marking"
> methodology.

FWIW: My library dired+.el does let you use the region to act on
(mark, unmark, toggle marks, flag for deletion) a selection of
files (and dirs).

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DiredPlus#RegionMenu

If you also use my library mouse3.el then the region menu has many
more possibilities:

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DiredPlus#RegionMenuWithMouse3Library



  reply	other threads:[~2015-12-14 19:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-12 21:45 [PATCH] * lisp/ibuffer.el: Add ability to (un-)mark or delete buffers in the region foudfou
2015-12-14 17:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-14 18:29   ` John Wiegley
2015-12-14 19:10     ` Drew Adams [this message]
2015-12-14 19:52       ` [PATCH] * lisp/ibuffer.el: Add ability to (nu-)mark " John Wiegley
2015-12-14 20:07         ` John Wiegley

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