From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steven Arntson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Perplexing dired behavior on "R": "pinging..." Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 14:08:30 -0800 Message-ID: <874mtsurz5.fsf@stevenarntson.com> References: <87389evaua.fsf@stevenarntson.com> <4fa03f9c-07b4-4fbf-9b6a-901f33bd2599@default> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1416607751 24096 80.91.229.3 (21 Nov 2014 22:09:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 22:09:11 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 21 23:09:05 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XrwO0-0004e9-VR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 23:09:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42633 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XrwO0-0003ZF-Ga for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 17:09:04 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38813) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XrwNk-0003ZA-Oz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 17:08:52 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XrwNf-0008HM-FX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 17:08:48 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:37959) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XrwNf-0008HH-92 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 17:08:43 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XrwNd-0004Ra-GU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 23:08:41 +0100 Original-Received: from 75-165-107-245.tukw.qwest.net ([75.165.107.245]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 23:08:41 +0100 Original-Received: from steven by 75-165-107-245.tukw.qwest.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 23:08:41 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 75-165-107-245.tukw.qwest.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:XQqJFqmQuuCWuCjO5zf2OjcOTqs= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:101111 Archived-At: Drew Adams writes: >> Using emacs 24.4.1. >> >> In a dired buffer, I "% m" to mark all files containing ".org". The >> first of these, for instance, is called "animals.org". Once the >> files >> are marked, I intend to move them to a new directory, and I type >> "R". Then the minibuffer says, >> >> "Pinging animals.org (Non-profit Organization)..." > > Good one! If you get that behavior after you start Emacs > using `emacs -Q' (no init file) then please file that as a bug: > `M-x report-emacs-bug'. Sounds like it is picking up the > URL at point and trying to get to it. Quite a "feature"! Restarting with -Q appeared to fix the problem. However, then when I restarted again normally, the problem remained fixed! So I'm left thinking that what I really needed to do was restart. Lesson learned ... steven