From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Dieter Wilhelm, H." Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#14931: 24.3; marking extensions with dired-x Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 19:07:33 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20975.63203.802379.76278@gnu.org> Reply-To: dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1374685753 23734 80.91.229.3 (24 Jul 2013 17:09:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 17:09:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Dieter Wilhelm, H." , 14931@debbugs.gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 24 19:09:13 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V22Yq-0001xb-Pz for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Jul 2013 19:09:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60078 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V22Yq-0006rP-Ab for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Jul 2013 13:09:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57306) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V22Yk-0006rE-Ht for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Jul 2013 13:09:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V22Yh-0001nh-9c for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Jul 2013 13:09:06 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:53080) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V22Yh-0001nY-6D for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Jul 2013 13:09:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1V22Yg-0007sG-I5 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Jul 2013 13:09:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: "Dieter Wilhelm, H." Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 17:09:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 14931 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 14931-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B14931.137468568230117 (code B ref 14931); Wed, 24 Jul 2013 17:09:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 14931) by debbugs.gnu.org; 24 Jul 2013 17:08:02 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47396 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1V22Xh-0007pY-NV for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 24 Jul 2013 13:08:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-lb0-f178.google.com ([209.85.217.178]:58848) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1V22Xg-0007ox-2f for 14931@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 24 Jul 2013 13:08:00 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-lb0-f178.google.com with SMTP id y6so688904lbh.37 for <14931@debbugs.gnu.org>; Wed, 24 Jul 2013 10:07:54 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:reply-to:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=ryb2PBDja18NXad4n9zjdgvRXvahwFGH2cSAQdp2N0g=; b=DlQSiFc/3bmwADXOOL/iMwtIDqZgeniuX5hpRHSZaIOY+h+EFdWcSFLGzgJln3on5h jv8wUNQojjqDkZGPArOHHbmt+K2LKxHmK/LvApsZxa9je8mKOho5+nUf7C6xBnl+AH1r 5yST45eW7xsOooCbj75Ds4LlveSWKTjs9N6U4Ia72nNU5lbj7dU84yltrOmnAg3i5ia7 hKAE7Hl+t6bXoSwRU3c9fK6Oi9P+R7YKxME76NSZMcEF3fmS2d/K6eprQ64P4S+CpFiR IyDOFvWwPUg8/qWxlzZ7SfCtlkwZlg+jBJU95KYQswC3s8+8p64VLqFqFy7oSHWaZpSi QN1w== X-Received: by 10.152.27.195 with SMTP id v3mr17353931lag.73.1374685674011; Wed, 24 Jul 2013 10:07:54 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.152.147.106 with HTTP; Wed, 24 Jul 2013 10:07:33 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-Google-Sender-Auth: MeamAT70lQAekp7jQrSvk5i2wWE X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:76629 Archived-At: 2013/7/24 Glenn Morris : > "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"?