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From: arthur!rob%vixen@CAD.BERKELEY.EDU (Robert M. Romero)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
Subject: Simple ones
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Date: 17 May 89 23:56:37 GMT
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Dear Bugkillers, 

1.   This one should be easy to answer.  It seems to be intentional, but
I have a hard time classifying it as a "feature":

  When I put up a buffer list, it is impossible from simple inspection 
to determine what pathname a dired entry is editing.  This is a real problem
when I'm editing five */src directories; I have to Find each one, and figure
out which it is.  However, file entries in the buffer list DO have a pathname,
so the mechanism is there, so it seems to be deleted for direds on purpose.

   Why is this the default behavior and is there (there doesn't seem to be)
a variable that controls this?  

2.  If I have a big long mode line with lots of room it seems
reasonable that I could program it to display the edited pathname (if
applicable).  Otherwise, I have to type 10+ characters to look at a
variable to find out.  

   Is there (there doesn't seem to be) a variable that controls this?

Thanks,

:-: Rob Romero, user of Emacs 18.53.1

     By the way: Congratulations on a very well-thought out and
appealing piece of software!  We at TCS really appreciate and take
advantage of GNUemacs.  Once people try after using other editors,
they don't go back.