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bug#21746: 24.5; purpose of dired-keep-marker-copy?
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Drew Adams |
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bug#21746: 24.5; purpose of dired-keep-marker-copy? |
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Fri, 23 Oct 2015 13:30:29 -0700 (PDT) |
> I have never figured out a
> reason why copying a file in dired gives the copied file a marker
> `C'.
The reason (IMO) is that the marker indicates what the
operation was, so you can easily identify - *and then
operate on* the files that were copied (or whatever
the operation was).
What might be missing for you is this bit of info:
`* c' lets you change the char that is used for a given
mark. So you can, for example, change all `C' marks at
a given moment to, say, `*' marks, and then use any
action on the marked files (which acts on `*'-marked
files). Or change it to `D' and then delete the flagged
files.
Because mark `C' is used, there is no confusion with
files that might be marked with `*' or any other mark.
You can have any number of different marks at any time,
giving them any conceptual meaning you like. Change
any of them to `*' to convert their files and dirs to
a set that you then act on in some way.
Dunno how much of this is documented in the manual,
but once you look at `C-h m' and then its mention
of `* c', you can pretty much imagine how it can be
put to good use.
- bug#21746: 24.5; purpose of dired-keep-marker-copy?, Roland Winkler, 2015/10/23
- bug#21746: 24.5; purpose of dired-keep-marker-copy?,
Drew Adams <=
- bug#21746: 24.5; purpose of dired-keep-marker-copy?, Roland Winkler, 2015/10/23
- bug#21746: 24.5; purpose of dired-keep-marker-copy?, Drew Adams, 2015/10/23
- bug#21746: 24.5; purpose of dired-keep-marker-copy?, Roland Winkler, 2015/10/23
- bug#21746: 24.5; purpose of dired-keep-marker-copy?, Drew Adams, 2015/10/24
- bug#21746: 24.5; purpose of dired-keep-marker-copy?, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/10/24
- bug#21746: 24.5; purpose of dired-keep-marker-copy?, Drew Adams, 2015/10/24
- bug#21746: 24.5; purpose of dired-keep-marker-copy?, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/10/24
- bug#21746: 24.5; purpose of dired-keep-marker-copy?, Drew Adams, 2015/10/24
- bug#21746: 24.5; purpose of dired-keep-marker-copy?, Andreas Schwab, 2015/10/24
- bug#21746: 24.5; purpose of dired-keep-marker-copy?, Drew Adams, 2015/10/24