From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#24518: 25.2.50; dired-mark-extension with prefix arg fails Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2016 16:49:46 +0300 Message-ID: <83zimxbe6d.fsf@gnu.org> References: <837fa1cy6l.fsf@gnu.org> <8337kpcvdc.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1474725028 11104 195.159.176.226 (24 Sep 2016 13:50:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2016 13:50:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 24518@debbugs.gnu.org To: Tino Calancha Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 24 15:50:22 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bnnLO-0001jv-CE for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Sep 2016 15:50:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33664 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bnnLM-0007sJ-OR for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Sep 2016 09:50:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57160) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bnnLE-0007pF-Gn for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Sep 2016 09:50:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bnnL8-0000mS-Cc for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Sep 2016 09:50:07 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:56065) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bnnL8-0000mO-9G for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Sep 2016 09:50:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bnnL8-0000yS-5J for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Sep 2016 09:50:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2016 13:50:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 24518 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 24518-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B24518.14747249773706 (code B ref 24518); Sat, 24 Sep 2016 13:50:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 24518) by debbugs.gnu.org; 24 Sep 2016 13:49:37 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34022 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bnnKj-0000xi-3J for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 24 Sep 2016 09:49:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:37908) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bnnKh-0000xW-KA for 24518@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 24 Sep 2016 09:49:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bnnKX-0000eC-FQ for 24518@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 24 Sep 2016 09:49:30 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:38502) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bnnKX-0000e4-C8; Sat, 24 Sep 2016 09:49:25 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:1811 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1bnnKW-0007Su-5S; Sat, 24 Sep 2016 09:49:25 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Tino Calancha on Sat, 24 Sep 2016 22:02:01 +0900 (JST)) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:123636 Archived-At: > From: Tino Calancha > Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2016 22:02:01 +0900 (JST) > cc: Tino Calancha , 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).