Re: dired-mark

[Andreas Röhler]

Am Freitag, 30. November 2007 16:11 schrieb Stefan Monnier:
> >>> Should you know a precise case where marking the "."
> >>> and ".." in the dired-buffer are useful, I would like
> >>> to read about that.
> >>
> >> E.g. when you want to change the permissions?
> >
> > Incidentally, dired-do-chmod refuses to operate on "." and "..".
>
> Sounds like a bug to me,
>
>
>         Stefan "who admits to using zsh rather than dired"
>

For ".." I think it's ok to have it disabled.

For "." enabling them might be useful.

From the marking question this would constat a special
case, as it addresses remaining files at once.

So to operate on them, should be not need to mark it before,
because it's no alternative selection then.

Andreas Röhler