Re: dired-view-command-alist

[Miles Bader]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
>> So I'd say keep the "[<N> files]" stuff in the prompt.
>
> An a different tack, one of my proposals was to bind * to inserting a
> text propertied string showing <marked files> or so.  Perhaps it would
> be more straightforward to just insert the file names themselves
> (shell-quoted, of course).

The problem that comes to mind is that the resulting command will then
be less useful for re-use via command history (I very often repeatedly
execute the same command on different files using ! and command history).

-Miles
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