Subject: Re: bug#76596: 30.1; dired-movement-style does not honor subdir operations

From: Charles Choi <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2025 09:13:03 -0800

Eli - 

It is not clear to me the value of having an option to prevent navigating to subdirs to reproduce the behavior shipped in 30.1. Why enforce two separate commands of navigation based on type? To me, subdir navigation is a subset of line navigation where line navigation moves the point to any non-blank line, and subdir navigation only applies to subdirs.

If it is insisted that enforcing separate commands for type navigation (file/directory, subdir) be supported, then please do _not_ make this option the default for dired-movement-style. I still consider such an option to be a user interface mistake.

Respectfully -

Charles

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Charles Y. Choi, Ph.D.
[email-masked]

> On Mar 4, 2025, at 6:57 AM, Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> Yes, additional value(s) of the option would be good if we want to
> have both behaviors.
> 
> Are you okay with me installing my patch, and then you working on
> adding the new value(s)?