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bug#14931: 24.3; marking extensions with dired-x
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Glenn Morris |
Subject: |
bug#14931: 24.3; marking extensions with dired-x |
Date: |
Wed, 24 Jul 2013 12:10:50 -0400 |
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Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
"Dieter Wilhelm, H." wrote:
>> Sorry, I did only consider the interactive approach with 'C-* .'!
>
> I meant '* .' not 'C-* .' of course...
(Why can't you just call it twice?)
>> Since I think this is more relevant/frequent to the dired usage as the
>> purely programatical one. Idealy one would combine both! :-)
In that case, you are asking for a new feature. Up to now, the only
documentation (besides a comment in the source) of this "takes a list"
option is in the dired-x manual, which says:
When called from Lisp, EXTENSION may also be a list of extensions
>> With my diff a simple sequence in the mini-buffer like 'png jpg' is
>> working, though not with the original code...
Firstly, note the documentation says:
A `.' is *not* automatically prepended to the string entered.
Secondly, what if someone wants to mark extensions with spaces, eg files
named "*.my extension"?