Function: dired-unmark-backward

dired-unmark-backward is an interactive and byte-compiled function defined in dired.el.gz.

Signature

(dired-unmark-backward ARG)

Documentation

In Dired, move up lines and remove marks or deletion flags there.

Optional prefix ARG says how many lines to unmark/unflag; default is one line. If the region is active in Transient Mark mode, unmark all files in the active region.

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Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 24.3.

Key Bindings

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/dired.el.gz
(defun dired-unmark-backward (arg)
  "In Dired, move up lines and remove marks or deletion flags there.
Optional prefix ARG says how many lines to unmark/unflag; default
is one line.
If the region is active in Transient Mark mode, unmark all files
in the active region."
  (interactive "p" dired-mode)
  (dired-unmark (- arg) t))