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

[Andreas Schwab]

On Sep 25 2016, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:

> Before commit 736b582 the doc string didn't mention that EXTENSION
> could be a list, either.  Like the optional argument, the fact that it
> could be a list was only mentioned in the comment, which was later
> moved into the doc string.  So by that logic the list feature also
> makes no sense, which is of course absurd.

You got it backwards: it is impossible to interactively input a list of
extensions, that's why it wasn't documented.  For the same reason the
optional marker char wasn't documented for interactive use.

> IOW, this argument proves nothing.

IOW, it still proves everything.

Andreas.

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