From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: dired: it is actually a marked file off the screen you will act on Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 05:35:36 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87wtt9h277.fsf@jidanni.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1108643594 30609 80.91.229.2 (17 Feb 2005 12:33:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 12:33:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 17 13:33:13 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D1kqD-0002Ry-3C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 13:33:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D1l6L-0002tK-54 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 07:49:49 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D1jPu-0000js-Un for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 06:01:56 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D1jMj-0000Rh-Rc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 05:59:29 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D1jIs-0008Si-LB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 05:54:39 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D1j4l-0004f8-6y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 05:40:03 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1D1j0S-0006xO-5J; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 05:35:36 -0500 Original-To: Dan Jacobson In-reply-to: <87wtt9h277.fsf@jidanni.org> (message from Dan Jacobson on Wed, 16 Feb 2005 06:45:48 +0800) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:33577 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:33577 Try this: do dired on a large directory of lots of similarly named files. Now mark one of the files with "m", and move it off the screen with a C-v. Now use ! (dired-do-shell-command) on the file under the cursor. Note how easy it is to think that the file under the cursor is the one to be acted upon! Therefore some visual extra warning should appear when dired-do-shell-command will act on a marked file and not the one under the cursor. It is a reasonable idea in principle. Any suggestions for how to show the distinction?