Re: Feature request: dired-open-marked-files

[Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>]

"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> Dunno what's so controversial. I've always wondered, on the contrary, why the
> Dired X features are not loaded and made available by default.

I've not examined them all in detail; let's just say that some of them seem
obviously useful and not dangerous, e.g., `dired-jump' and
`dired-do-find-marked-files' (I've seen the latter functionality requested
several times recently on #emacs), whereas others seem less useful, and
maybe don't merit a keybinding by default (e.g., `dired-man').
`dired-vm-read-only-folders' probably shouldn't be there, as VM isn't
distributed with emacs or really all that commonly used (and for a long
time, didn't even officially support non-xemacs).

But I generally agree with you.  At the least, the split into dired and
dired-x seems arbitrary and deserves re-examination.

-Miles

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