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From: | Tino Calancha |
Subject: | bug#24518: 25.2.50; dired-mark-extension with prefix arg fails |
Date: | Sat, 24 Sep 2016 22:02:01 +0900 (JST) |
User-agent: | Alpine 2.20 (DEB 67 2015-01-07) |
On Sat, 24 Sep 2016, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
Maybe you are a genious. Normal people when we are prompt for a character we expect we can input the textual representation of the character, for example: i will answerFrom: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2016 21:30:11 +0900 (JST) cc: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com>, 24518@debbugs.gnu.org On Sat, 24 Sep 2016, Eli Zaretskii wrote:This loses the feature whereby the user could also specify the character to use as the marker. Try "C-u 65 * . el RET" to see what that does.That feature has never being available since `dired-x' was added to Emacs in 1994: the bug came from the very first commit. No user will miss that feature because nobody ever could use it.??? The example I gave works with the unmodified sources. When used as I've shown, there's no bug, and the command does what I expect. So how can we be sure no one ever used it that way and won't miss this optional behavior? Can you explain your logic here?
K instead of 75 You should admit that your example is tricky. Compare how the user is prompted with: M-x dired-change-marks RET ;; This command expects 'textual' representation of the character. I don't think my patch breaks any feature, because i consider prompting fo a char in hexadecimal not a feature. Maybe for robots, but certainly not for human.
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