From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com>
Cc: 24518@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24518: 25.2.50; dired-mark-extension with prefix arg fails
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2016 16:49:46 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83zimxbe6d.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1609242155500.8821@calancha-pc> (message from Tino Calancha on Sat, 24 Sep 2016 22:02:01 +0900 (JST))
> From: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2016 22:02:01 +0900 (JST)
> cc: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com>, 24518@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> >> That feature has never being available since `dired-x' was added to Emacs
> >> in 1994: the bug came from the very first commit. No user will miss
> >> that feature because nobody ever could use it.
> >
> > ??? The example I gave works with the unmodified sources. When used
> > as I've shown, there's no bug, and the command does what I expect. So
> > how can we be sure no one ever used it that way and won't miss this
> > optional behavior?
> >
> > Can you explain your logic here?
> Maybe you are a genious.
I'm not a genius. I just read the sources.
> Normal people when we are prompt for a
> character we expect we can input the textual representation of the
> character, for example: i will answer
> K
> instead of
> 75
There's no prompt, you must specify the marker via the prefix
argument. With 'P', you must type the numeric codepoint of the
character; if we change it to 'c', users will be able to say "C-u x"
instead (where 'x' is the marker character they want).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-24 13:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-23 14:13 bug#24518: 25.2.50; dired-mark-extension with prefix arg fails Tino Calancha
2016-09-24 11:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-24 12:30 ` Tino Calancha
2016-09-24 12:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-24 13:02 ` Tino Calancha
2016-09-24 13:49 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-09-24 13:15 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-09-24 13:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-24 14:06 ` Tino Calancha
2016-09-24 15:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-24 16:48 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-09-24 16:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-24 17:14 ` Tino Calancha
2016-09-24 17:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-24 17:49 ` Tino Calancha
2016-09-24 19:23 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-09-24 19:13 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-09-24 19:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-24 19:41 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-09-25 18:34 ` John Wiegley
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