Re: dired-mark

[Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>]

Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@online.de> writes:

> dired-mark doku says: 
>
> If on a subdir headerline, mark all its files except `.' and `..'.
>
> In the current directory however `.' and `..' are marked too. This may
> cause errors later on, a need to search and unmark them.
>
> What about a change, which would skip or block marking of `.' and `..'
> in current directory.
>
> Any opinions?

But what if you really intend to mark "." or ".."?

To mark all files and directories in the current directory I use `% m'
(`dired-mark-files-regexp') with the regexp ".*".  This will omit "."
and "..".

Bye,
Tassilo