From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Dired: how to mark with other character but * Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2021 22:30:03 +0100 Message-ID: <87h7mwn6as.fsf@web.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="40120"; 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:AYfYw87zl0L6ntYCdc82cfU8M6k= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 31 22:30:46 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 1l6KIu-000AHr-Ob for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 31 Jan 2021 22:30:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41584 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l6KIt-0008NB-PM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 31 Jan 2021 16:30:43 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:47014) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l6KIW-0008LO-81 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Jan 2021 16:30:20 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:39038) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l6KIU-0002eJ-Lz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Jan 2021 16:30:19 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1l6KIN-0009WW-T4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Jan 2021 22:30:11 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ 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: -13 X-Spam_score: -1.4 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.4 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN=0.25, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, 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:127496 Archived-At: Jean Louis writes: > I would like to use this specific workflow in Dired like following: > [...] As far as I know there is nothing built-in that matches exactly what you are looking for. Using different marker chars can be very useful, but it's not that convenient. Personally, I have implemented a "secondary" mark. What I sometimes miss is the ability to use multiple marks per file. Anyway, maybe you would like something like this: #+begin_src emacs-lisp (defun my-dired-with-marker-prefix-command (char) "Prefix command temporarily changing marker char." (interactive "cMarker char for next command: ") (let ((old-dired-marker-char dired-marker-char) (used-once nil)) (setq dired-marker-char char) (letrec ((f (lambda () (if (not used-once) (setq used-once t) (setq dired-marker-char old-dired-marker-char) (remove-hook 'post-command-hook f 'local))))) (add-hook 'post-command-hook f nil 'local)))) #+end_src A different approach is use stored sets of marked files. Again, there is no built-in solution for this (apart from the neglected "virtual dired" maybe). AFAIR, dired+ supports this, maybe also other packages. It's also relatively simple to setup registers for that purpose. Regards, Michael.