dired-jump keybinding and autoload

[Stephen Berman]

Start Emacs with -Q, type C-x C-j, Emacs beeps and says "C-x C-j is
undefined".  Now type `M-x dired-jump' and you get a Dired buffer of the
default directory.  Type q to bury it, and now typing C-x C-j works and
brings up the default directory again.  The reason for this behavior is
that the command dired-jump from dired-x.el is autoloaded, but its
default global keybinding, C-x C-j, is not.  Since this keybinding is
conditioned on the value of the defcustom dired-bind-jump, it is not
possible to put the keybinding on an autoload cookie, as is done
e.g. with C-x d in dired.el.  But users can always change or eliminate
the keybinding anyway, so dired-bind-jump isn't really a very
interesting defcustom.  So, since the default value of dired-bind-jump
is t, I suggest eliminating dired-bind-jump and the condition on the
keybinding, and autoloading the latter.  Ditto for the keybinding of
dired-jump-other-window, and also autoload this command.

Steve Berman


2008-05-08  Stephen Berman  <address@hidden>

        * dired-x.el (dired-bind-jump): Eliminate.
        Add key bindings for `dired-jump' and `dired-jump-other-window' as
        autoload cookies.
        (dired-jump-other-window): Add autoload cookie.

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Description: dired-x.el patch