Re: Dired: how to mark with other character but *

[Emanuel Berg]

Jean Louis wrote:

> I have solved it now by making new function based on
> (dired-flag-file-deletion ARG &optional INTERACTIVE):
>
> (defun rcd-dired-mark-view-file (arg &optional interactive)
>   "In Dired, mark the current line's file for viewing.
> If the region is active, mark all files in the region.
> Otherwise, with a prefix arg, mark files on the next ARG lines.
>
> If on a subdir headerline, mark all its files except `.' and `..'.
> If the region is active in Transient Mark mode, mark all files
> in the active region."
>   (interactive (list current-prefix-arg t))
>   (let ((dired-marker-char 86))
>     (dired-mark arg interactive)))

Yeah, but... isn't this built-in somewhere already?

86 = ?V BTW, maybe more clear to use that in this case...

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