Daniel Barclay wrote:Actually the shell is, for cases like "rm *.o". (That's why I wish graphical shells retained the advantages of command lines when they added the graphical advantages.
I should have said "partial, non-continuious selections across a large list." Simple cases like *.o, yeah, shell does fine. I mean like a list of, 2-300 files which have no common denominator. Suddenly the globbing gets rather convoluted or you need to go through several passes whereas in a GUI selection you can just go down the list holding CNTL and SHIFT-select ranges and then execute one operation at the end.
Right. That's when you bring up a dired buffer in emacs.
dircha
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