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

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From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Charles Choi <kickingvegas <at> gmail.com>, "76596 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <76596 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#76596: 30.1; dired-movement-style does not honor subdir operations
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2025 20:22:59 +0200

> `bounded': skip blank lines and don't wrap
> `cycle'  : skip blank lines and wrap
> nil      : don't skip blank lines and don't wrap
>
> What's missing is "don't skip but wrap".
> And that's maybe the most useful possibility.
> (It's the default behavior for Dired+.)

I tried to add the value 'warp' that moves even to empty lines and wraps,
but it stops at the empty line at the end of the Dired buffer.
Why might anyone want this?

> Please tell me why cycling doesn't logically
> apply to `C-M-n', `C-M-p', `>', and `<'.

`>' and `<' are already cycling,
while `C-M-n' and `C-M-p' aren't.

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