From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: Justin Fields <justinlime1999@gmail.com>
Cc: "emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add file-ring to dired-aux.el
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2024 17:53:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <875xpk5e22.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <SN6PR03MB3871CA1929453B506FDB3993FC432@SN6PR03MB3871.namprd03.prod.outlook.com> (Justin Fields's message of "Mon, 21 Oct 2024 15:05:05 +0000")
Justin Fields <justinlime1999@gmail.com> writes:
> But, to summarize, the general idea is that you capture files into the
> list, in which you can perform actions with them LATER. This also
> forgoes the need
> of having multiple visible dired buffers present in the first place.
> [...]
Thanks. This is a bit similar to how selections work in file managers.
But - wouldn't a dedicated dired buffer listing exactly those files not
be more intuitive? Instead of adding a bunch of new commands operating
on the remembered files you could just use the "normal" dired commands.
Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-10-22 15:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-10-21 15:05 [PATCH] Add file-ring to dired-aux.el Justin Fields
2024-10-21 17:47 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2024-10-22 15:53 ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
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2024-10-21 8:11 Justin Fields
2024-10-21 9:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-21 10:14 ` Justin Fields
2024-10-21 10:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-28 10:31 ` Björn Bidar
[not found] ` <87v7xctt6p.fsf@>
2024-10-28 12:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-21 12:35 ` Michael Heerdegen via Emacs development discussions.
2024-10-22 18:15 ` Juri Linkov
2024-10-22 18:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-23 6:47 ` Justin Fields
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