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#41097
28.0.50; (dired-toggle-marks) not working after copy
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Reported by: Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support>
Date: Tue, 5 May 2020 15:35:01 UTC
Severity: minor
Found in version 28.0.50
Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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Message #118 received at 41097 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
> In the case at hand, someone decided that marking
> for file deletion is more worth signaling that other
> marking for other operations. I, for one, am fine
> with that decision. You apparently are not. What's
> important is that the doc and UI are clear about the
> behavior, so all users know what to expect.
I can adapt myself. I love how Emacs is created and many people
participated and participate in its creation and improvements. I am
myself alright, and I am also alright with many new things to learn
in Emacs. Just looking from a new user perspective, it is still my own
viewpoint with addition of my opinion how new user looks at it.
I have used Emacs since 1999. For many years I have not even been
aware of Dired. I have delivered computer courses back in
1990-1992. And I have delivered few GNU free software seminars in
Germany. And all the time I have been using mostly Rox file manager of
Midnight Commander, in the shell. I was not aware of dired, not at
all. Emacs was for editing.
If I open a file, where in the Tools says "File manager" -- but it
should in my opinion. It is just in recent years that I became heavy
user of dired, as I have extended my personal use to varieties that I
could not implement in any other file manager.
I am old but new user. So for me it was not easily accessible to
discover Dired in so many years. And I program myself all the last 21
years.
File menu has no such "File manager" menu. Of course I know today that
I can open directory and I am in dired, but I was opening directory
even before, and I did not know that I am in dired, all I knew is that
I can open file for editing, that is what I knew.
That is one example.
Unspoken from the fact that I can use Emacs similar to the shell, as
the main window to all of my computing needs. Nobody explained me
that, I had to discover it myself and understand what other people are
speaking about it. That I find so powerful.
> FWIW:
>
> I've made quite a few changes to Dired menus in my own
> code (Dired+). For one thing, I've separated flagging
> for deletion from marking otherwise, and I've separated
> unmarking from both: menus `Flag', `Mark', and `Unmark'.
> And each of those menus has more items. And each of them
> is a submenu of menu `Marks' (flags are marks).
>
> https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DiredPlus#MarksMenu
I cannot find it in list-packages
Jean
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