From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: moasenwood--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [External] : Re: Dired: how to mark with other character but * Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2021 05:15:13 +0100 Message-ID: <874kivcdgu.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <87k0rtha1r.fsf@mbork.pl> <878s89lgcl.fsf@zoho.eu> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="2375"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:SH6v3P1k6oDuAAjw2N1fkZoA6G4= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 02 05:22:17 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1l6nCj-0000W9-8p for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 02 Feb 2021 05:22:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41024 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l6nCi-0000ia-9z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 01 Feb 2021 23:22:16 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:46858) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l6nAc-0006Ij-2l for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Feb 2021 23:20:06 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:54678) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l6nAa-0007or-BH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Feb 2021 23:20:05 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1l6nAY-0008ZX-2M for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Feb 2021 05:20:02 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:127555 Archived-At: Drew Adams wrote: >>> There isn't one. But you could define one. >> >> (defun diredp-mark-with-char (char &optional arg)... > > Also, there are these functions to mark with a particular > char: > > dired-mark-files-regexp > dired-mark-files-containing-regexp > > (They're commands, but they don't ask for the char when > called interactively.) ___ > > And you can just set `dired-marker-char' to whatever char > you want, anytime: > > `M-: (setq dired-marker-char ?Q)' > > And then use that marker for all Dired commands. > > `dired-marker-char' affects many Dired features, even > font-locking. They just DTRT, in general. Look for > `dired-marker-char' in files dired*.el. What about utilities? -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 https://dataswamp.org/~incal