From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
Cc: 5551@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#5551: 23.1.92; Dired shows wrongly whole directory contents
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:27:27 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pr4dqw3k.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pr4epomb.fsf@gmx.de> (Michael Albinus's message of "Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:42:04 +0100")
Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:
> According to the doc, dired shall show single file entries when called
> with a list of file names. If a file name is a directory, this works OK
> with remote directory names. But with local directory names, it shows
> the whole directory contents, which is wrong.
The doc seems ambiguous to me, and it is not clear to me what is the
better behavior. Do you have an argument for why displaying just the
directory name is better?
But the present behavior has been around since at least Emacs 22, so I
don't think we should make this change right now in any case.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-10 9:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-09 12:42 bug#5551: 23.1.92; Dired shows wrongly whole directory contents Michael Albinus
2010-02-09 15:27 ` Michael Albinus
2010-02-10 9:27 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2010-02-10 9:46 ` Michael Albinus
2010-02-13 7:33 ` Chong Yidong
2010-02-14 9:31 ` Michael Albinus
2010-02-10 16:47 ` Drew Adams
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