From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2017 11:29:11 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Improve documentation of Dired X-Git-Tag: emacs-26.0.91~179 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=14f0230a48872f7da0cd665a576b6d7313aad323;p=emacs.git Improve documentation of Dired * doc/emacs/dired.texi (Dired): Mention that the Dired buffer can be made modifiable in Wdired. Suggested by Alex Branham in emacs-manual-bugs@gnu.org. --- diff --git a/doc/emacs/dired.texi b/doc/emacs/dired.texi index db5dea329b5..0b7e0b6139e 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/dired.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/dired.texi @@ -14,8 +14,9 @@ optionally some of its subdirectories as well. You can use the normal Emacs commands to move around in this buffer, and special Dired commands to operate on the listed files. - The Dired buffer is read-only, and inserting text in it is not -allowed. Ordinary printing characters such as @kbd{d} and @kbd{x} are + The Dired buffer is normally read-only, and inserting text in it is +not allowed (however, the Wdired mode allows that, @pxref{Wdired}). +Ordinary printing characters such as @kbd{d} and @kbd{x} are redefined for special Dired commands. Some Dired commands @dfn{mark} or @dfn{flag} the @dfn{current file} (that is, the file on the current line); other commands operate on the marked files or on the flagged