Variable: dired-keep-marker-symlink

dired-keep-marker-symlink is a customizable variable defined in dired.el.gz.

Value

89

Documentation

Controls marking of newly made symbolic links.

If t, they are marked if and as the files linked to were marked. If a character, new links are unconditionally marked with that character.

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/dired.el.gz
(defcustom dired-keep-marker-symlink ?Y
  "Controls marking of newly made symbolic links.
If t, they are marked if and as the files linked to were marked.
If a character, new links are unconditionally marked with that character."
  :type '(choice (const :tag "Keep" t)
		 (character :tag "Mark"))
  :group 'dired-mark)