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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:251617 Archived-At: Alan Third writes: > On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 05:02:33PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> > This seems like a reasonable solution to me. Alternatively perhaps we >> > just need to sell C-x C-f as "open a file or directory" rather than >> > "find a file"? >> >> A directory *is* a file. > > Well why are these damn newbies getting confused when they open a > directory? ;) n00bs! :-)