I noticed this change in the excellent Emacs news, and that made me wonder: would it make sense for this to also happen for other kinds of marks, ticking, etc? E.g. typing ! sets the "!"-mark and typing ! again would remove it? (I wish the same would happen with marked files in dired, I can remember to mark 'm', but I can never remember how to remove marks again...) Best regards, Adam -- "Mein Kopf tut weh mach die Augen zu" Adam Sjøgren asjo@koldfront.dk
Adam Sjøgren <asjo@koldfront.dk> writes: > I noticed this change in the excellent Emacs news, and that made me > wonder: would it make sense for this to also happen for other kinds of > marks, ticking, etc? > > E.g. typing ! sets the "!"-mark and typing ! again would remove it? Hm... well, an article may have many mutually exclusive readedness states -- unread, read, ticked, dormant, so ideally "removing it" would mean restoring the previous state, I guess? So it's not as simple with these commands, I think, and might be pretty confusing. > (I wish the same would happen with marked files in dired, I can remember > to mark 'm', but I can never remember how to remove marks again...) Somebody said there was a user option to control that in Dired, but I haven't actually looked. :-) -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no
Lars writes: > Hm... well, an article may have many mutually exclusive readedness > states -- unread, read, ticked, dormant, so ideally "removing it" would > mean restoring the previous state, I guess? I thought, naïvely, that specifically ticked was unrelated to the others, just "overriding" the display, but, yes, if they are intertwined you are right it would probably be nigh impossible to make toggling do the "right" thing in all cases. Maybe I should just advice ! to do whatever it is I type to remove !'s, if the article is already !'ed. Hm! >> (I wish the same would happen with marked files in dired, I can remember >> to mark 'm', but I can never remember how to remove marks again...) > > Somebody said there was a user option to control that in Dired, but I > haven't actually looked. :-) Just as I said I couldn't remember the keybinding, I pressed u and it worked... Best regards, Adam -- "Nej, kungar kan inte värpa. Dom är pojkar." Adam Sjøgren asjo@koldfront.dk