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: Dired: how to mark with other character but * Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2021 07:43:46 +0100 Message-ID: <87czxlli71.fsf@zoho.eu> References: 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="37044"; 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:lCMttnMMh9bBXKjOaWQP16GHYhk= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 31 07:45:02 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 1l66Tm-0009Wv-K6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 31 Jan 2021 07:45:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56810 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l66Tl-0000kJ-Mb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 31 Jan 2021 01:45:01 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:33774) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l66Sh-0000jx-Q1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Jan 2021 01:43:55 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:39192) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l66Sg-0003gb-9G for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Jan 2021 01:43:55 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1l66Sd-0008Cr-D5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Jan 2021 07:43:51 +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: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, 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:127472 Archived-At: Jean Louis wrote: > I have solved it now by making new function based on > (dired-flag-file-deletion ARG &optional INTERACTIVE): > > (defun rcd-dired-mark-view-file (arg &optional interactive) > "In Dired, mark the current line's file for viewing. > If the region is active, mark all files in the region. > Otherwise, with a prefix arg, mark files on the next ARG lines. > > If on a subdir headerline, mark all its files except `.' and `..'. > If the region is active in Transient Mark mode, mark all files > in the active region." > (interactive (list current-prefix-arg t)) > (let ((dired-marker-char 86)) > (dired-mark arg interactive))) Yeah, but... isn't this built-in somewhere already? 86 = ?V BTW, maybe more clear to use that in this case... -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 https://dataswamp.org/~incal