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dired-do-toggle inappropriately named
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Dan Jacobson |
Subject: |
dired-do-toggle inappropriately named |
Date: |
27 Mar 2002 15:40:47 +0800 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 |
Gentlemen, in dired hit * C-h:
Major Mode Bindings Starting With *:
key binding
--- -------
* . dired-mark-extension
* ( dired-mark-sexp
* t dired-do-toggle
* C-p dired-prev-marked-file
* C-n dired-next-marked-file
* DEL dired-unmark-backward
* ! dired-unmark-all-marks
* ? dired-unmark-all-files
* u dired-unmark
* m dired-mark
* s dired-mark-subdir-files
* c dired-change-marks
* % dired-mark-files-regexp
* @ dired-mark-symlinks
* / dired-mark-directories
* * dired-mark-executables
Indeed, all of them mention marks except dired-do-toggle. One would
think that dired-do-toggle is probably what is hitched up to "s"
(actually dired-sort-toggle-or-edit) and thus have trouble finding
this command.
Indeed,
|dired-do-toggle is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `dired'.
|Toggle marks...
So, dired-toggle-marks or dired-mark-toggle etc. might be better
names.
By the way, some of these command names mention their death penalty
implications,
dired-flag-auto-save-files
dired-flag-garbage-files
dired-flag-file-deletion
dired-do-flagged-delete
dired-flag-backup-files
dired-flag-files-regexp
some just gloss over it with a cheery "flag"... perhaps a harried user
might confuse this with "mark". Being that deletion is the supreme
sacrifice here in computerland, short of frying your monitor to boot,
I guess, perhaps the above names should be made more explicit, in case
the user misses the explanations provided in Help and Info.
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