From: Michael Heerdegen via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: revert-buffer in dired
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2024 22:39:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ikraoz8t.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: rie1pxy9y2o.fsf@faulbaum.in-berlin.de
Dieter Faulbaum <mail@faulbaum.in-berlin.de> writes:
> I think, it would be nice, if the newly introduced:
>
> *** Clicking on base name of directory reverts buffer.
> When 'dired-make-directory-clickable' is non-nil, clicking on the base
> name of the directory now reverts the Dired buffer.
>
> should not change the position of the cursor.
> Is this possible?
I wrote a note to the bug report where this change had been discussed -
you are CC'd.
> The 'revert-buffer' in dired also changes the position of the cursor
> (to the filename of the "actual" line).
> What is the idea of this?
Dired saves a lot of information to restore for reverting. Since the
file name point is on can appear on a different line after reverting, we save
the file name and, I think, don't care about the position to a finer
degree since it is not really relevant for the sake of dired commands.
Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-12-23 21:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-12-23 16:13 revert-buffer in dired Dieter Faulbaum
2024-12-23 16:39 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2024-12-24 9:34 ` Dieter Faulbaum
2024-12-23 21:39 ` Michael Heerdegen via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [this message]
2024-12-23 22:02 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
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