Subject: Re: 31.0.50; marking inconsistency between VC-Dir and dired-vc-next-action

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2025 12:48:33 +0200

> From: Sean Whitton <[email-masked]>
> Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2025 10:50:01 +0800
> 
> Here's an alternative proposal that sits only at the UI level.
> 
> A defcustom with values nil, 'ask, t.  nil is the current behaviour.
> 'ask means to do the follow things after a y/n prompt, t means to do
> them unconditionally:
> 
> - When you try to mark a file but you can't because the directory is
>   already marked, unmark the directory first.
> 
> - When you try to mark a directory but you can't because a file under it
>   is already marked, unmark all files under it and mark the directory,
>   instead.

What about unmarking -- how will that work in your proposal?