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bug#24518: 25.2.50; dired-mark-extension with prefix arg fails
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#24518: 25.2.50; dired-mark-extension with prefix arg fails |
Date: |
Sat, 24 Sep 2016 16:49:46 +0300 |
> From: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2016 22:02:01 +0900 (JST)
> cc: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com>, 24518@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> >> 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?
> Maybe you are a genious.
I'm not a genius. I just read the sources.
> Normal people when we are prompt for a
> character we expect we can input the textual representation of the
> character, for example: i will answer
> K
> instead of
> 75
There's no prompt, you must specify the marker via the prefix
argument. With 'P', you must type the numeric codepoint of the
character; if we change it to 'c', users will be able to say "C-u x"
instead (where 'x' is the marker character they want).
- bug#24518: 25.2.50; dired-mark-extension with prefix arg fails, Tino Calancha, 2016/09/23
- bug#24518: 25.2.50; dired-mark-extension with prefix arg fails, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/09/24
- bug#24518: 25.2.50; dired-mark-extension with prefix arg fails, Tino Calancha, 2016/09/24
- bug#24518: 25.2.50; dired-mark-extension with prefix arg fails, Andreas Schwab, 2016/09/24
- bug#24518: 25.2.50; dired-mark-extension with prefix arg fails, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/09/24
- bug#24518: 25.2.50; dired-mark-extension with prefix arg fails, Tino Calancha, 2016/09/24
- bug#24518: 25.2.50; dired-mark-extension with prefix arg fails, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/09/24
- bug#24518: 25.2.50; dired-mark-extension with prefix arg fails, Andreas Schwab, 2016/09/24
- bug#24518: 25.2.50; dired-mark-extension with prefix arg fails, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/09/24
- bug#24518: 25.2.50; dired-mark-extension with prefix arg fails, Tino Calancha, 2016/09/24
- bug#24518: 25.2.50; dired-mark-extension with prefix arg fails, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/09/24
- bug#24518: 25.2.50; dired-mark-extension with prefix arg fails, Tino Calancha, 2016/09/24
- bug#24518: 25.2.50; dired-mark-extension with prefix arg fails, Andreas Schwab, 2016/09/24