From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, 'Mathias Dahl' <mathias.dahl@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Dired patch for `i' - bounce between subdir line and its inserted listing
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 02:53:24 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zlsfkbj6.fsf@jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <003701c892b8$a99aa060$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Sun, 30 Mar 2008 15:51:58 -0700")
> The question is what `i' should do when it is _not_ on a directory line. In
> vanilla Emacs without the proposed patch it just raises an error: "Attempt to
> insert a non-directory: c:/foo/bar/toto.el". With the patch, it goes to the
> parent directory line, if there is one, in the same Dired buffer. Which of these
> behaviors is more useful? That's the only question, because that's the only
> change the patch makes.
I think `i' on a file line should be reserved for something more useful.
`i' means "insert", so it makes sense to insert a file into the dired
buffer, as some file managers already do.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-30 23:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-08 23:14 Dired patch for `i' - bounce between subdir line and its inserted listing Drew Adams
2008-03-30 1:13 ` Mathias Dahl
2008-03-30 18:35 ` Juri Linkov
2008-03-30 22:03 ` Mathias Dahl
2008-03-30 22:42 ` Juri Linkov
2008-03-31 7:54 ` Mathias Dahl
2008-03-30 22:51 ` Drew Adams
2008-03-30 23:53 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2008-03-31 7:58 ` Mathias Dahl
2008-03-31 7:53 ` Mathias Dahl
2008-03-31 19:08 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-31 19:23 ` Mathias Dahl
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