From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Jacobson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: dired needs symlink inderction gradual stripper Date: 17 Jul 2002 05:21:26 +0800 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <87r8i3id2h.fsf@jidanni.org> References: <87y9cdswuh.fsf@jidanni.org> <200207161329.g6GDTIi22031@aztec.santafe.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1026855566 15772 127.0.0.1 (16 Jul 2002 21:39:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 21:39:26 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17Ua2W-00046H-00 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 23:39:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17Ua2V-0001R9-00; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 17:39:23 -0400 Original-Received: from chi6-1.relay.mail.uu.net ([199.171.54.98]) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17Ua1P-0001OT-00 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 17:38:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.fu-berlin.de by chi6sosrv13.alter.net with ESMTP (peer crosschecked as: mail.fu-berlin.de [160.45.11.165]) id QQmxus23521 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 21:38:14 GMT Original-Received: by mail.fu-berlin.de (Smail3.2.0.98) from Curry.ZEDAT.FU-Berlin.DE (160.45.10.36) with esmtp id ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 23:38:13 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: by Curry.ZEDAT.FU-Berlin.DE (Smail3.2.0.98) from news.fu-berlin.de with bsmtp id ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 23:38:13 +0200 (MEST) Original-To: gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org Original-Path: 61-227-47-134.hinet-ip.hinet.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 16 X-Orig-NNTP-Posting-Host: 61-227-47-134.hinet-ip.hinet.net (61.227.47.134) X-Orig-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1026855493 26757165 61.227.47.134 (16 [99749]) X-Orig-Path: 127.0.0.1!nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:2731 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:2731 notRMS> I am sitting on top of notRMS> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 5 28 21:39 words -> /etc/alternatives/dictionary notRMS> and I would like, with just a keystroke, arrive at a revised dired notRMS> listing, i.e. that file now from the standpoint of /etc/alternatives RMS> This seems like a useful feature. One complication is, how should RMS> this command decide what part of that directory to list? Should it RMS> always list the whole directory? Just that one file? Either one is RMS> easy enough to do. I don't know. Maybe do like Burger King and have it their way, i.e. C-u gives the other way. Anyway, you engineers work it out. All I know is I wasn't psychologically prepared for full penetration at the time. -- http://jidanni.org/ Taiwan(04)25854780