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From: | Michael Albinus |
Subject: | bug#42578: 28.0.50; [suggestion] allow dired-do-shell-command on directory line |
Date: | Wed, 29 Jul 2020 14:11:45 +0200 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Marco Wahl <marcowahlsoft@gmail.com> writes: Hi Marco, >>>> Dired headlines are not file or directory lines. >>>> They're not acted on by ! or (most) other commands. >>> >>> Okay. I guess this is the core question here. Allow a key on a dired >>> headline to have an effect or not. >> >> What would be different from applying "!" on the "." file name in >> the dired buffer? > > Functionally there would be no difference. > > The suggestion is to fill a gap. Get functionality where before was > nothing. Practically in particular there'd be no more need to watch out > for the ".". Is it really a gap? You can always type "M-! <command>" (or "M-! <command> ." in case you need the directory as argument). > All the best! Best regards, Michael.
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