> I tested the patch briefly and it seems to work fine BUT I'm not sure > why this is a good idea. You're mapping keys that do other things in > Emacs (esp. C-o but also C-t and even C-w which can be used if the > dired buffer is made non-read-only in Emacs).
When the change is simple, mg should behave like emacs. Sometimes it will be different because it is a simpler editor. But it should not go out of the way to be different.