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dired-do-toggle inappropriately named


From: Dan Jacobson
Subject: dired-do-toggle inappropriately named
Date: 27 Mar 2002 15:40:47 +0800
User-agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1

Gentlemen, in dired hit * C-h:
Major Mode Bindings Starting With *:
key             binding
---             -------

* .             dired-mark-extension
* (             dired-mark-sexp
* t             dired-do-toggle
* C-p           dired-prev-marked-file
* C-n           dired-next-marked-file
* DEL           dired-unmark-backward
* !             dired-unmark-all-marks
* ?             dired-unmark-all-files
* u             dired-unmark
* m             dired-mark
* s             dired-mark-subdir-files
* c             dired-change-marks
* %             dired-mark-files-regexp
* @             dired-mark-symlinks
* /             dired-mark-directories
* *             dired-mark-executables

Indeed, all of them mention marks except dired-do-toggle.  One would
think that dired-do-toggle is probably what is hitched up to "s"
(actually dired-sort-toggle-or-edit) and thus have trouble finding
this command.

Indeed,
|dired-do-toggle is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `dired'.
|Toggle marks...
So, dired-toggle-marks or dired-mark-toggle etc. might be better
names.

By the way, some of these command names mention their death penalty 
implications,
dired-flag-auto-save-files
dired-flag-garbage-files
dired-flag-file-deletion
dired-do-flagged-delete
dired-flag-backup-files
dired-flag-files-regexp

some just gloss over it with a cheery "flag"... perhaps a harried user
might confuse this with "mark".  Being that deletion is the supreme
sacrifice here in computerland, short of frying your monitor to boot,
I guess, perhaps the above names should be made more explicit, in case
the user misses the explanations provided in Help and Info.
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