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28.0.50; Add dired commands to navigate symbolic links

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 43028 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, uyennhi.qm <at> gmail.com, jidanni <at> jidanni.org
Subject: bug#43028: 28.0.50; Add dired commands to navigate symbolic links
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2020 10:29:14 +0200

Tino Calancha <tino.calancha <at> gmail.com> writes:

> How do you feel about adding these new navigators and bind them to
> '{' '}' ?

[...]

> +*** New commands 'dired-prev-symlinkline', 'dired-next-symlinkline' to visit
> +symbolic links in the current dired buffer, bound respectively to '{' '}'.

Hm...  I can't say that I can remember ever wanting to visit symlinks in
a dired buffer in particular.  What's the use case?

And I think that if I wanted to, I probably wouldn't remember these
keystrokes -- I'd just isearch for -> instead.

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