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[elpa] externals/dired-duplicates 6df828caac 41/57: README.org: Add more


From: ELPA Syncer
Subject: [elpa] externals/dired-duplicates 6df828caac 41/57: README.org: Add more detailed explanations
Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2023 06:58:30 -0400 (EDT)

branch: externals/dired-duplicates
commit 6df828caacdb5517f93423b1077af08104d217d4
Author: Harald Judt <h.judt@gmx.at>
Commit: Harald Judt <h.judt@gmx.at>

    README.org: Add more detailed explanations
---
 README.org | 17 ++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.org b/README.org
index abece490f4..c5ddf4b40f 100644
--- a/README.org
+++ b/README.org
@@ -4,19 +4,26 @@
 This Emacs package helps to find duplicate files on local and remote
 filesystems.  It is similar to the fdupes command-line utility but written in
 Emacs Lisp and should also work on every remote filesystem that TRAMP supports
-and where executable commands can be called remotely.
+and where executable commands can be called remotely.  The most common use case
+for this is probably finding and deleting unneeded duplicate files.
 
 dired-duplicates works by first searching files of the same size, then invoking
 the calculation of the checksum for these files, and finally presenting the
 grouped results in a Dired buffer that the user can work with similarly to a
 regular Dired buffer.  It might be even possible to combine this with other
-Dired extension packages, like =dired-narrow=.  The results will be grouped
-visually by using a temporary file serving as a separator.
+Dired extension packages, like =dired-narrow=.
+
+The results will be grouped visually by using a temporary file serving as a
+separator - the author has not yet found any way of making dired add an empty
+line or similar to achieve some sort of separation, but this grouping with a
+temporary file can also be deactivated.
 
 * Requirements
 For performance reasons, a checksum program like =md5= or =sha256sum= will be
 used for generating checksums of file contents and therefore needs to be
-available and executable on the local and/or remote hosts. The name of the
+available and executable on the local and/or remote hosts.  That way, no files
+need to be read over possibly slow networks and calculating the checksum will
+be much faster when directly executed on remote hosts.  The name of the
 checksum program can be customized.
 
 * Installation
@@ -36,5 +43,5 @@ entering =dired-duplicates= for the desired group.  These 
options are described
 extensively there.
 
 * License
-This package is licensed under GPL-3. See the =LICENSE= file for more
+This package is licensed under GPL-3.  See the =LICENSE= file for more
 information.



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