Re: [PATCH] Add file-ring to dired-aux.el

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Björn Bidar <bjorn.bidar@thaodan.de>
> Cc: Justin Fields <justinlime1999@gmail.com>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2024 12:31:26 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> From: Justin Fields <justinlime1999@gmail.com>
> >> Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 05:14:52 -0500
> >> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> >> 
> >> > Why do you call this a "ring"?  AFAICT, it is a simple list, created
> >> > and used as such.
> >> 
> >> To be perfectly honest, it was just the first thing that came to mind to 
> >> help distinguish this feature. If anybody
> >> has any better suggestions I can append accordingly.
> >
> > Something like dired-marked-files?
> 
> It would be great to have consistent name on these. If it's a list of
> files it should have the suffix -list similarly to e.g. recentf-list.

OTOH, almost everything in Emacs is a list, so adding -list would be
waste of space.  When we say "files", "directories", etc., it should
IMO be quite clear we are talking about a list.