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Re: Dired: Improve symmetry in mark/unmark commands bound to keys


From: Tino Calancha
Subject: Re: Dired: Improve symmetry in mark/unmark commands bound to keys
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2016 04:49:05 +0900 (JST)
User-agent: Alpine 2.20 (DEB 67 2015-01-07)



On Sat, 24 Sep 2016, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

From: Andreas Schwab <address@hidden>
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2016 21:31:09 +0200
Cc: Emacs developers <address@hidden>

There is no need for dired-mark-or-unmark-extension,
dired-mark-extension should to that already.  Since the prefix argument
has always been useless it is ok to change its meaning, and make it
consistent with all other dired commands.

I disagree and object to such a change.
I try to be objective and look at this regardless of my wish.  Then, i
cannot see the rationale about what makes special marking by extension.
Why should '* .' prompt for a marker-char (the only guy doing so)
but similar ones as '* @', '* /', or even '% m' should not?
The code is talking us, let's hear what is saying.  It should be obvious.
I would be proud on you if you could reconsider your opinion in case several people here suggest you the opposite. It would be wise.



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