From: "Roland Winkler" <winkler@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>, 21746@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21746: 24.5; purpose of dired-keep-marker-copy?
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2015 23:01:12 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <21512.40131.587409.22060@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <33f6a584-df3d-48e1-9db1-52d6aa11e5b8@default>
On Sat Oct 24 2015 Drew Adams wrote:
> I did. But you apparently don't want to recognize this use as
> being useful. I'll repeat it, just in case you didn't hear it:
>
> To distinguish/identify the files that were copied. And to do
> so in a way that they can be further acted on in Dired. IOW,
> in a Dired-consistent way. Both parts of this are useful:
> (1) easily see which were copied and (2) easily act on them
> or on any subset of them. #2 requires #1, but #1 is useful
> on its own.
>
> How else could Dired distinguish the copied files?
It shouldn't. Marks are for new actions in the future, not for old
ones from the past.
If you nonetheless like inconsistent behavior, don't make it the
default.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-25 4:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-23 19:44 bug#21746: 24.5; purpose of dired-keep-marker-copy? Roland Winkler
2015-10-23 20:30 ` Drew Adams
2015-10-23 20:54 ` Roland Winkler
2015-10-23 21:57 ` Drew Adams
2015-10-24 1:20 ` Roland Winkler
2015-10-24 8:04 ` Drew Adams
2015-10-24 8:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-24 9:35 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-10-24 16:05 ` Drew Adams
2015-10-24 16:14 ` Drew Adams
2015-10-24 20:51 ` Roland Winkler
2015-10-24 21:09 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-10-24 21:34 ` Drew Adams
2015-10-24 22:00 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-10-24 21:30 ` Drew Adams
2015-10-25 0:15 ` Michael Heerdegen
2015-10-25 4:01 ` Roland Winkler [this message]
2015-10-25 5:12 ` Drew Adams
2015-10-25 17:40 ` Richard Stallman
2015-10-25 12:55 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-10-25 18:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-28 11:50 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2015-10-29 0:14 ` Juri Linkov
2015-10-29 0:37 ` Michael Heerdegen
2015-10-29 0:53 ` Drew Adams
2015-10-24 5:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-24 6:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2015-10-24 8:04 ` Drew Adams
2015-10-24 8:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2015-10-24 8:17 ` Drew Adams
2015-10-24 8:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2015-10-24 8:21 ` Drew Adams
2015-10-24 8:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2015-10-24 8:34 ` Drew Adams
2015-10-24 8:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
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[not found] ` <<831tcky7it.fsf@gnu.org>
2015-10-24 16:05 ` Drew Adams
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[not found] ` <<834mhgy8pv.fsf@gnu.org>
2015-10-24 8:30 ` Drew Adams
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