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30.1; dired-movement-style does not honor subdir operations

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Message #11 received at 76596 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Charles Choi <kickingvegas <at> gmail.com>, 76596 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#76596: 30.1; dired-movement-style does not honor subdir
 operations
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2025 19:52:05 +0200

>> **** Expected Result
>> Point should land on subdir.
>> 
>> **** Actual Result
>> Point avoids subdir, preventing running operations on it such as removing it (C-u k).
>
> Juri, this seems to be due to your changes in commit 29d42d9158ae:
> dired-between-files returns non-nil when on a subdirectory line, so
> Dired thinks it's an empty line.
>
> Charles, does the patch below give good results?
>
> Juri, do you agree with the patch?  It should go to the release
> branch.

I'm not sure what is the behavior expected by most users?
It seems the intention for this feature was to visit only
filename lines with n, p, C-p, C-n, since there are already
special commands to visit subdir lines with C-M-n, C-M-p and M-G.

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