Re: Dired: how to mark with other character but *

[Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>]

From the manual:

‘* c OLD-MARKCHAR NEW-MARKCHAR’
     Replace all marks that use the character OLD-MARKCHAR with marks
     that use the character NEW-MARKCHAR (‘dired-change-marks’).  This
     command is the primary way to create or use marks other than ‘*’ or
     ‘D’.  The arguments are single characters—do not use <RET> to
     terminate them.

(and yes, it is not easy to find unless you know what you're looking
for).

Hth,
mb



On 2021-01-31, at 07:18, Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> wrote:

> I would like to use this specific workflow in Dired like following:
>
> - I am reviewing videos, so I have to use in Dired either ! or & to
>   review a video
>
> - I wish to mark specific videos for later referencing
>
> - if I mark it with `m' then the next invocation of ! or & will
>   operate on marked files. Right now I am memorizing which videos are
>   to be marked, and not use Emacs to help me
>
> - if ! operates only on files marked as * then I could as a solution
>   mark files with some other character, let us say V but I wish to
>   know how to do it
>
> - Later, those files marked with V character I could replace to *
>   character to operate on such videos, that I know how to do from the
>   manual
>
> What I do not find in the manual is how to mark files with some other
> character. That is what would make my above envisioned workflow
> useful.
>
> Jean


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