! in dired mode

[Frederik Fouvry]

Symptoms:

In recent Emacs versions (see below for the number), it does not seem
to be possible anymore to use ! to operate on `.' or `..'.  While I
can live with the limitation on `..', it is annoying for `.', for
instance when I just want to do a find on the current directory in
Dired, I cannot do this anymore, and have to open the parent directory
and look for the wanted directory, or to type M-x find-dired.  Each of
these contain more key strokes than just ! find.


In GNU Emacs 21.3.50.6 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2004-11-11 on cc.at.coli.uni-sb.de
Distributor `The XFree86 Project, Inc', version 11.0.40201000
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: POSIX
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: address@hidden
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_GB
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Emacs-Lisp

Minor modes in effect:
  eldoc-mode: t
  auto-image-file-mode: t
  desktop-save-mode: t
  global-auto-revert-mode: t
  iswitchb-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  recentf-mode: t
  display-time-mode: t
  auto-insert-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
<down> <down> <escape> < C-s c a n n o t C-s C-s C-s 
C-x C-f <backspace> <return> <up> <up> ! C-g C-x k 
<return> C-s c a n n o t C-s C-s C-s <up> C-s o p e 
r a t o <backspace> <up> C-x C-f d i r <tab> e <tab> 
. e <tab> <return> C-s c a n n o t SPC o p <up> <up> 
<up> <down> <down> <down> <up> <up> <prior> <up> <up> 
<up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <down> 
<escape> < C-x k <return> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<menu-bar> <help-menu> <report-emacs-bug>

Recent messages:
Quit
Mark set
Mark saved where search started
dired-get-filename: Cannot operate on `.' or `..'
Quit
Mark saved where search started
Making completion list...
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