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Re: Typo in Emacs 29 manual?


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Typo in Emacs 29 manual?
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2022 14:40:01 +0200

> From: John Yates <john@yates-sheets.org>
> Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2022 19:20:39 -0500
> Cc: Help Gnu Emacs mailing list <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> 
> On Sat, Mar 5, 2022 at 6:26 PM Michael Heerdegen
> <michael_heerdegen@web.de> wrote:
> > Seems you get (dired default-directory).
> 
> So then I would modify my previous suggestion to read:
> 
> Typing ‘C-x C-j’ (‘dired-jump’) displays a Dired buffer in the current
> window.  If the starting buffer was a Dired buffer then the new buffer
> displays its parent directory.  If the starting buffer was a file buffer
> then the new buffer displays that files directory with point positioned
> on that file.  Finally, if the original buffer was neither a Dired buffer
> nor a file buffer then the new buffer displays the directory identified
> by that buffer's default-directory.   Typing ‘C-x 4 C-j’
> (‘dired-jump-other-window’) has the same effect except that it
> displays the new Dired buffer in another window.

Thanks, I fixed the wording there (on the emacs-28 branch, because
this is not new in Emacs 29).



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