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

From: Michael Albinus <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2020 14:11:45 +0200

Marco Wahl <[email-masked]> writes:

Hi Marco,

>>>> 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 ".".

Is it really a gap? You can always type "M-! <command>"
(or "M-! <command> ." in case you need the directory as argument).

> All the best!

Best regards, Michael.