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Re: Dired patch for `i' - bounce between subdir line and its inserted li
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Mathias Dahl |
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Re: Dired patch for `i' - bounce between subdir line and its inserted listing |
Date: |
Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:53:02 +0200 |
> It's not about double-tapping. That was never described as the purpose of the
> patch. Similarly, always taking you back where you came from was never
> described
> as the purpose of the patch.
Sorry for reading my thoughts into your proposal.
> With or without the patch, `i' always inserts a directory when used on a
> directory line. That's a feature (the original behavior of `i'), not a bug.
Yes, it is not a bug.
> The question is what `i' should do when it is _not_ on a directory line. In
> vanilla Emacs without the proposed patch it just raises an error: "Attempt to
> insert a non-directory: c:/foo/bar/toto.el". With the patch, it goes to the
> parent directory line, if there is one, in the same Dired buffer. Which of
> these
> behaviors is more useful? That's the only question, because that's the only
> change the patch makes.
I can only describe how I work and I would not use the patched `i' in
that way. I would have liked it for the double tap thingy but now that
I realized that have bad side effects I would not like it anymore :) I
would never use `i' on a non-dir line outside the context of inserting
the same dir. That's not saying other would not like it, of course.
Now that I know about `^' doing what I want I will probably start to
use that. It is unlikely that I do this on the top level by mistake so
it will work for me I think.