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From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
To: Marco Wahl <marcowahlsoft@gmail.com>
Cc: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>, 42578@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#42578: 28.0.50; [suggestion] allow dired-do-shell-command on directory line
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2020 14:11:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tuxqed1a.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r1sufscz.fsf@gmail.com> (Marco Wahl's message of "Wed, 29 Jul 2020 13:55:24 +0200")

Marco Wahl <marcowahlsoft@gmail.com> writes:

Hi Marco,

>>>> Dired headlines are not file or directory lines.
>>>> They're not acted on by ! or (most) other commands.
>>>
>>> Okay. I guess this is the core question here. Allow a key on a dired
>>> headline to have an effect or not.
>>
>> What would be different from applying "!" on the "." file name in
>> the dired buffer?
>
> Functionally there would be no difference.
>
> The suggestion is to fill a gap. Get functionality where before was
> nothing. Practically in particular there'd be no more need to watch out
> for the ".".

Is it really a gap? You can always type "M-! <command>"
(or "M-! <command> ." in case you need the directory as argument).

> All the best!

Best regards, Michael.





  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-29 12:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-28 10:36 bug#42578: 28.0.50; [suggestion] allow dired-do-shell-command on directory line Marco Wahl
2020-07-28 18:34 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2020-07-28 19:09   ` Marco Wahl
2020-07-28 20:20     ` Drew Adams
2020-07-28 21:04       ` Marco Wahl
2020-07-29  7:49         ` Michael Albinus
2020-07-29 11:55           ` Marco Wahl
2020-07-29 12:11             ` Michael Albinus [this message]
2020-07-29 12:33               ` Marco Wahl
2020-07-29 14:16                 ` Michael Albinus
2020-07-30 10:23                   ` Marco Wahl
2020-07-31 14:24                     ` Marco Wahl
2020-07-29  0:17 ` arthur miller
2020-07-29 15:31   ` Drew Adams
2020-07-29 15:59     ` Arthur Miller
2020-07-29 16:29       ` Drew Adams
2020-07-29 18:02         ` Arthur Miller

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