From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: `Q' in Dired - be able to skip the rest of one file and move on to the next Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2008 11:11:40 +0100 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1199355665 6158 80.91.229.12 (3 Jan 2008 10:21:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 10:21:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Drew Adams , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 03 11:21:25 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JANCW-0007jP-MG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 11:21:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JANCA-0001v4-6I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 05:21:02 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JAN3F-0003MI-RW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 05:11:49 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JAN3D-0003JE-FP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 05:11:48 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JAN3C-0003Iz-Qy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 05:11:47 -0500 Original-Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15] helo=mx2.suse.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JAN38-0005BX-KY; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 05:11:42 -0500 Original-Received: from Relay1.suse.de (mail2.suse.de [195.135.221.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4EC42FB28; Thu, 3 Jan 2008 11:11:40 +0100 (CET) X-Yow: Yow! Am I in Milwaukee? In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu\, 03 Jan 2008 04\:50\:32 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:85987 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > I agree it would be good to have a way to skip to the start of the next= file. > A natural interface for this would be to unmark each file just before s= tarting > to search that file. Then, quitting the command and resuming it will s= kip > that file. On the other hand, if you plan to do many operations on the same list of files you don't want them to be automatically unmarked. No dired operation does that currently. Andreas. --=20 Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstra=DFe 5, 90409 N=FCrnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint =3D 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED= 5 "And now for something completely different."