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

From: Marco Wahl <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2020 14:33:49 +0200

>>> 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).

That's a good point. Somehow I forgot to try M-! in dired.

I'm fine with closing this issue now.

Gentlemen, thanks for the conversation!

Best regards!