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Re: Annoying behavior when dropping directorty in dired buffer


From: Reiner Steib
Subject: Re: Annoying behavior when dropping directorty in dired buffer
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 16:06:42 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

On Thu, Oct 20 2005, Mathias Dahl wrote:

> Reiner Steib <address@hidden> writes:
[...]
>> I thought the part "When nil, behave as in other buffers." is
>> sufficiently clear.  What would you suggest to make it more clear?
>
> Sorry, I missed that part of the documentation :)
>
> I tried it now, setting it using Customize (I set it too "Behave as in
> other buffers" (nil)), and it still does not work, which is strange. I
> have a dired buffer open and when I do C-h v dired-dnd-protocol-alist
> it says the value *is* nil.

On Thu, Oct 20 2005, Mathias Dahl wrote:
[...]
> Sorry for the noise, it works the way I want after having set that
> variable to nil and restarting Emacs.

`dired-dnd-protocol-alist' is used when entering dired-mode.  Changing
it doesn't effect already opened dired buffers.  I'd suggest to add
this patch to the doc string.  Unless somebody objects, I'll install
it.

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
--- dired.el    26 Sep 2005 13:19:59 +0200      1.328
+++ dired.el    20 Oct 2005 16:00:26 +0200      
@@ -206,7 +206,8 @@
     ("^file:"    . dired-dnd-handle-local-file))
   "The functions to call when a drop in `dired-mode' is made.
 See `dnd-protocol-alist' for more information.  When nil, behave
-as in other buffers."
+as in other buffers.  Changing this options is effective only for
+new dired buffers."
   :type '(choice (repeat (cons (regexp) (function)))
                 (const :tag "Behave as in other buffers" nil))
   :version "22.1"
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Bye, Reiner.
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