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

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: kickingvegas <at> gmail.com, 76596 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, juri <at> linkov.net
Subject: bug#76596: 30.1; dired-movement-style does not honor subdir operations
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2025 21:49:33 +0200

> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
> CC: "76596 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <76596 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>,
>         Juri Linkov
> 	<juri <at> linkov.net>
> Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2025 19:38:02 +0000
> 
> > 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.
> 
> +1, for not preventing navigation to subdirs.
> 
> I even see no particular value in skipping
> blank lines!

This is all a tempest in a teapot.  We are discussing opt-in behavior,
so it should only matter to people who'd want to opt in.  People who
don't like these optional behaviors should not bother.

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