Re: Typo in Emacs 29 manual?

[John Yates]

The two described behaviors are mutually exclusive.  The opening

> Typing ‘C-x C-j’ (‘dired-jump’) in any buffer will open a Dired buffer...

is imprecise (to wit the next sentence).  Perhaps better might be:

Typing ‘C-x C-j’ (‘dired-jump’) in a Dired buffer will move up a level
and move point to the previous directory’s line.  Typing ‘C-x C-j’
(‘dired-jump’) in any other kind of buffer will open a Dired buffer in
that same window and move point to the line corresponding to the
current file.  Typing ‘C-x 4 C-j’ (‘dired-jump-other-window’ has the
same effect but opens a new window for the Dired buffer.

Question: what if the original buffer is neither a Dired buffer nor a
buffer visiting a file?



On Sat, Mar 5, 2022 at 3:27 PM Natalie <batalie@riseup.net> wrote:

> On 2022-03-05 12:56, Natalie wrote:
> > I'm not filing a bug about this (yet), because I think I might be
> > missing something. But can someone tell me if this is a typo?
> >
> > From 30.1 Entering Dired (pulled from git master's emacs.info)
> >> Typing ‘C-x C-j’ (‘dired-jump’) in any buffer will open a Dired buffer
> and move point to the line corresponding to the current file. In Dired,
> move up a level and go to the previous directory’s line.  Typing ‘C-x 4
> C-j’ (‘dired-jump-other-window’ has the same effect but opens a new window
> for the Dired buffer.
>
> Of course, I just figured it out right after sending this. I suggest
> saying "In Dired, THIS WILL move up a level and go to the previous
> directory's line." Just no capitals..
>
>

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