Re: Mac - why no proxy badge for dired mode?

[Randal L. Schwartz]

>>>>> "YAMAMOTO" == YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu <address@hidden> writes:

YAMAMOTO> I doubt whether displaying the proxy icon for a dired buffer is the
YAMAMOTO> right thing.  Is there any application having that behavior?

Yes.  Finder.  I can drag the icon representing the finder folder
into another app.  And finder's view of a folder is very analogoes
to dired mode in emacs.

YAMAMOTO>   Also,
YAMAMOTO> the icon is not draggable when the buffer modification flag is set.

This is a deliberate Mac apps UI decision.  You can't drag a proxy icon if it
doesn't actually represent what is "on disk".

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