From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Roland Winkler" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#21746: 24.5; purpose of dired-keep-marker-copy? 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X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:107939 Archived-At: While I have used emacs for many years, I have never figured out a reason why copying a file in dired gives the copied file a marker `C'. So today I wanted to find out, but I failed: the docstring of dired-do-copy does not explain it, dired-keep-marker-copy does not explain it, and in the emacs info manual I could not find anything useful either. What is the purpose of this feature? It appears to me that it is a feature for experts which is at best distracting for ordinary users. I suggest: either explain it somewhere that is not too hard to find or give dired-keep-marker-copy a default value of nil (and similar for dired-keep-marker-hardlink, dired-keep-marker-symlink). In GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.10.8) of 2015-05-27 on regnitz Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11600000 System Description: Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS