bug#14931: 24.3; marking extensions with dired-x

["Dieter Wilhelm, H." <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de>]

2013/7/24 Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>:
> "Dieter Wilhelm, H." wrote:
>
>>> Sorry, I did only consider the interactive approach with 'C-* .'!
>>
>> I meant '* .' not 'C-* .' of course...
>
> (Why can't you just call it twice?)

I did this first but instinctively guessed that there must be another
way of selecting multiple extensions.  Then I misread the
documentation in my sense concluding that it should be possible to do
this also interactively and therefore assumed a bug.

With my half-baked but working solution I got then too carried away,
thank you for your explanations and please close this "bug" report.

>>> Since I think this is more relevant/frequent to the dired usage as the
>>> purely programatical one. Idealy one would combine both! :-)
>
> In that case, you are asking for a new feature. Up to now, the only

You're right, this would be a new feature and I don't want to burden
somebody to implement this only minor improvement in all its
generality.
Maybe I'll improve my change at one stage in the future and'll submit it again.

--
Thank you for your patience

   Dieter

> documentation (besides a comment in the source) of this "takes a list"
> option is in the dired-x manual, which says:
>
>     When called from Lisp, EXTENSION may also be a list of extensions
>
>>> With my diff a simple sequence in the mini-buffer like 'png jpg' is
>>> working, though not with the original code...
>
> Firstly, note the documentation says:
>
>   A `.' is *not* automatically prepended to the string entered.
>
> Secondly, what if someone wants to mark extensions with spaces, eg files
> named "*.my extension"?