Re: dired-jump keybinding and autoload

[Stephen Berman <Stephen.Berman@gmx.net>]

On Thu, 08 May 2008 16:36:49 +0200 David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:

> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>
>>> brings up the default directory again.  The reason for this behavior is
>>> that the command dired-jump from dired-x.el is autoloaded, but its
>>> default global keybinding, C-x C-j, is not.  Since this keybinding is
>>
>> The intention behind dired-x is to contain extensions to dired that
>> we do not want to provide by default.

Then dired-jump should not be autoloaded, should it?  That would also
fix the UI inconsistency (command autoloaded but not its global key
binding).  But...

> C-x C-j arguably is something we want to provide by default, I think, so
> it should probably be moved from dired-x to dired proper.

... I think this would be the best solution (for dired-jump; there are
still one or two other autoloaded commands in dired-x that according to
the logic of the expressed intention shouldn't be).

Steve Berman