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28.0.50; Add dired commands to navigate symbolic links

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From: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha <at> gmail.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 43028 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, jidanni <at> jidanni.org, uyennhi.qm <at> gmail.com, Tino Calancha <tino.calancha <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#43028: 28.0.50; Add dired commands to navigate symbolic links
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2020 17:44:46 +0200 (CEST)

On Tue, 25 Aug 2020, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> 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?
Of course, it is of interest if you work a lot with symbolic links: to 
move promptly to them with short typing.
I do use them often, that's why I feel good with this.

Of course, if it is not see as something useful it's OK to 
discard this idea (that's why I wanted to ask first) :-)

> And I think that if I wanted to, I probably wouldn't remember these
> keystrokes -- I'd just isearch for -> instead.
I added the menu entry under 'Immediate' for discoverability.

For american keyboards is almost same exercise push < or > than { or }
Also, the curly braces suggested me some directionability in their shape 
that we haven't exploit yet.
I have noticed dired+ is not using this key either.

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