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>>>>> "DL" == Derrell Lipman <derrell@vis-av.com> writes:

    DL> It seems that some of the bindings in dired-mode have changed
    DL> for xemacs-19.15b98.  'c' used to copy the current or marked
    DL> files; now it's 'C'.  Ok, I'm sure there were (good?) reasons
    DL> for that.

I was also annoyed by this change.  In my experience, copy is much
more common than change marks.

    DL> However, if I accidentally type 'c' after marking a number of
    DL> files, I *should* still be able to hit C-G to abort my
    DL> incorrect key press, just as I would abort ANY incorrect
    DL> operation.  No such luck, though. It changes the marks to ^G.
    DL> I consider this a bug.

I also consider it a bug.  C-g should *always* quit.

-Barry

