Re: up & down keys in Dired [was: M-= in Dired]

[Richard Stallman]

The main reason for the feature of jumping to the file name
was to help make the names easy to see.  In 1984 putting the cursor
at the start of the name was the only way to do this.

Today maybe some sort of font-lock highlighting would be more effective.

If this is changed, it would be good to have some convenient command
to move point to the start of the file name on the line.  Maybe M-m
should do that.

It might be even better to put point at the start of the name and the
mark at the end of it.

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