two suggestions for the keymap in dired mode

[Daniel Ortmann]

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In GNU Emacs 20.7.1 (i386--freebsd, X toolkit)
 of Fri Sep 22 2000 on pyrl.eye
configured using `configure  --with-x-toolkit --with-pop --prefix=/usr/local 
i386--freebsd'

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

I suggest that, in dired mode, the "r" key should invoke a
dired-find-file-read-only,
and the backslash key "\\" (or something better?) invoke
dired-find-file-literally
as follows:

; the following was copied from dired-find-file in dired.el and modified.
(defalias 'dired-advertised-find-file-read-only 'dired-find-file-read-only)
(defun dired-find-file-read-only ()
  "In dired, visit the file or directory named on this line in read-only
mode."
  (interactive)
  (let ((file-name (file-name-sans-versions (dired-get-filename) t)))
    (if (file-exists-p file-name)
     (find-file-read-only file-name)
      (if (file-symlink-p file-name)
       (error "File is a symlink to a nonexistent target")
     (error "File no longer exists; type `g' to update Dired buffer")))))
(defalias 'dired-advertised-find-file-literally 'dired-find-file-literally)
(defun dired-find-file-literally ()
  "In dired, visit the file or directory named on this line in read-only
mode."
  (interactive)
  (let ((file-name (file-name-sans-versions (dired-get-filename) t)))
    (if (file-exists-p file-name)
     (find-file-literally file-name)
      (if (file-symlink-p file-name)
       (error "File is a symlink to a nonexistent target")
     (error "File no longer exists; type `g' to update Dired buffer")))))
(define-key dired-mode-map "r" 'dired-advertised-find-file-read-only)
(define-key dired-mode-map "\\" 'dired-advertised-find-file-literally)


Recent input:
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M-> q g C-n C-n return M-> C-p C-p C-p return C-x o 
C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-v C-l 
M-x r e p o r t - e m tab return C-g C-s s u b j e 
c t C-s C-f C-f C-SPC C-e M-w M-x r e p o r t - e m 
tab return

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