Subject: bug#78658: 30.1; [PATCH] Dired feature suggestion: dired-on-marked-files-in-all-buffers

From: Juri Linkov <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2025 09:14:35 +0300

> You may be thinking of your use case (below), where you
> apparently want (1) a Dired buffer for each descendant
> directory, (2) a Dired buffer for the top-level dir,
> and (3) a Dired buffer for each subdir marked in each
> such buffer.

To avoid misunderstanding, here is the use case that I meant:

1. mark the file dired.el in the 'lisp' dir;
2. mark the file vc-dir.el in the 'lisp/vc' dir;
3. in the root dir invoke 'dired-on-marked-files'

and it shows the list of

  lisp/dired.el
  lisp/vc/vc-dir.el