Subject: bug#42578: 28.0.50; [suggestion] allow dired-do-shell-command on directory line

From: Marco Wahl <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2020 13:55:24 +0200

>>> Dired headlines are not file or directory lines.
>>> They're not acted on by ! or (most) other commands.
>>
>> Okay. I guess this is the core question here. Allow a key on a dired
>> headline to have an effect or not.
>
> What would be different from applying "!" on the "." file name in the dired buffer?

Functionally there would be no difference.

The suggestion is to fill a gap. Get functionality where before was
nothing. Practically in particular there'd be no more need to watch out
for the ".".

> See you tonight, and best regards, Michael.

Yes, hopefully! ;)

All the best!