From: Christoph Scholtes <cschol2112@googlemail.com>
To: Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ido-show-dot-for-dired
Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:38:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86fwep136v.fsf@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1aa4x4rc2.fsf@gmail.com> (Leo's message of "Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:28:13 +0800")
Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com> writes:
> The current behaviour is quite handy to open current default-directory
> i.e. C-x d RET and you are done.
Right, but do we need the dot for that?
I guess this is somewhat related to my bug report #10731
(http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=10731).
There the argument is that the head of the list is not selected because
that is consistent with the buffer selection dialog. I can agree with
that. Enter and C-j should not have the same effect.
However, isn't the dot in case of the C-x d dialog the head of the list?
If the dot wasn't there, C-j could still send you to the current default
directory, which would be consistent with the behavior you described in
the bug report. Whereas now with the dot, C-j and Enter _have_ the same
effect. They both select the current default-directory.
If I _dont't_ want to select the current directory but move down a
hierarchy of directories which all contain a single subdirectory I
always need a C-s to select the subdirectory (and not the dot) and then
press Enter. Without the dot I can just press Enter, Enter, Enter
etc. and if I want to open dired at any point I press C-j.
Christoph
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-05 19:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-04 22:05 ido-show-dot-for-dired Christoph Scholtes
2012-02-05 8:28 ` ido-show-dot-for-dired Leo
2012-02-05 19:38 ` Christoph Scholtes [this message]
2012-02-06 3:51 ` ido-show-dot-for-dired Leo
2012-02-06 4:13 ` ido-show-dot-for-dired Christoph Scholtes
2012-02-06 6:45 ` ido-show-dot-for-dired Leo
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