Re: `Q' in Dired - be able to skip the rest of one file and move on to the next

[Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>]

Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> writes:
>> A natural interface for this would be to unmark each file just before starting
>> to search that file.  Then, quitting the command and resuming it will skip
>> that file.
>
> On the other hand, if you plan to do many operations on the same list of
> files you don't want them to be automatically unmarked.  No dired
> operation does that currently.

I often use the direct Q command multiple times in a row on the same set
of files.

The query-replace "!" command currently does "the right thing" (for the
positive case) when using as part of a Q invocation -- it replaces all
remaining entries in the current file, and then starts prompting again
in the text file.

So perhaps a new query-replace command, like "N" could be added, that
skips the rest of the file, but continues prompting in the next file?
For normal query-replace usage it would be equivalent to "q", but that
seems OK...

-Miles

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