GNU bug report logs - #34949
27.0.50; Docstring of `vc-deduce-fileset' incomplete

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2019 18:04:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: confirmed, fixed

Found in version 27.0.50

Fixed in version 28.0.50

Done: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #133 received at 34949 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>, 34949 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Subject: RE: bug#34949: 27.0.50; Docstring of `vc-deduce-fileset' incomplete
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2020 15:04:32 -0700 (PDT)

> > To avoid other possible future problems, please consider
> > putting all such vc-dired commands on a VC-marking prefix
> > key, such as `* v'.
> 
> `* v' is not mnemonic for marking.  The character `*'
> has such mnemonic because `*' *is* a marking char.

Yes, `*' has that meaning.  So `* v' can have the meaning
of marking VC stuff.

See "all", above.  `* v' as a _prefix_ key, for marking
stuff in VC-dired.  And this is an example - marking
unregistered stuff (presumably).

> > E.g., use `* v u' for `vc-dir-mark-unregistered'.  `* v'
> > is currently undefined for Dired, and that way Dired
> > sacrifices only `* v', for possible Dired marking commands.
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