From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Dired hd drives list Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 08:14:06 -0700 Message-ID: <000701c88c2f$5f62a130$0600a8c0@us.oracle.com> References: <000301c88ad4$52fb2630$c2b22382@us.oracle.com><873aqkarad.fsf@W0053328.mgh.harvard.edu><006101c88b8b$f3898490$0600a8c0@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1206198950 30115 80.91.229.12 (22 Mar 2008 15:15:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 15:15:50 +0000 (UTC) To: "'Eli Zaretskii'" , Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 22 16:16:20 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jd5SB-0003IK-Tv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Mar 2008 16:16:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jd5Rb-0003Sj-3c for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Mar 2008 11:15:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jd5RK-0003Sa-Oc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Mar 2008 11:15:22 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jd5RI-0003SK-21 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Mar 2008 11:15:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jd5RH-0003SH-VB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Mar 2008 11:15:19 -0400 Original-Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jd5RD-0004sF-OC; Sat, 22 Mar 2008 11:15:16 -0400 Original-Received: from agmgw1.us.oracle.com (agmgw1.us.oracle.com [152.68.180.212]) by rgminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.6) with ESMTP id m2MFF9wr032053; Sat, 22 Mar 2008 09:15:13 -0600 Original-Received: from acsmt350.oracle.com (acsmt350.oracle.com [141.146.40.150]) by agmgw1.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.0/Switch-3.2.0) with ESMTP id m2MFF9Pn011905; Sat, 22 Mar 2008 09:15:09 -0600 Original-Received: from inet-141-146-46-1.oracle.com by acsmt351.oracle.com with ESMTP id 3622073041206198838; Sat, 22 Mar 2008 08:13:58 -0700 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/141.144.81.251) by bhmail.oracle.com (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Sat, 22 Mar 2008 08:13:58 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-reply-to: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 Thread-Index: AciL/AyhdBfHHah2Q12Q+KxOFCJXSAAMGEwA X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:52634 Archived-At: > > > How useful would it be to those of us that use Unix? > > > > Not useful at all. I thought that was clear. > > I don't see why not: `df' shows several filesystems on Unix as well. Oh, OK, go for it. I was thinking of the My Computer level as, in a sense, analogous to the Unix root directory. In Windows, going `up' from c: is a common operation in Windows Explorer (though `cd ..' doesn't get you there, any more than `cd ..' lets you go up from the root directory on Unix). So sure, why not? That makes sense. But `df' is not really analogous to Windows Explorer's My Computer level either. `df' prints disk-space information no matter where you are, and it doesn't change your location. I was understanding the OP as suggesting that we add a `top' My Computer-like pseudo directory to Dired, which you would get to, say, via `..' from c:, not a command like `df' that leaves you where you are but prints info for all drives. Dunno which the OP had in mind. Perhaps a command that just prints the info would be better in some ways, instead of mimicking Windows Explorer by giving you a navigable place (pseudo-directory) to view everything. The notion of current directory wouldn't be problematic then. An advantage of the Windows Explorer-like approach is that it does fit in with navigation, so you could do things like insert subdirs. The `df' command approach would no doubt be easier to implement (nothing to do, for Unix) and less problematic.