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: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:44:17 -0700 Message-ID: <006101c88b8b$f3898490$0600a8c0@us.oracle.com> References: <000301c88ad4$52fb2630$c2b22382@us.oracle.com> <873aqkarad.fsf@W0053328.mgh.harvard.edu> 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 1206128797 402 80.91.229.12 (21 Mar 2008 19:46:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:46:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: "'Joel J. Adamson'" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 21 20:47:07 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 1JcnCb-0000es-AG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:46:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JcnC0-0007Yz-Je for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:46:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JcnBh-0007YZ-LW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:46:02 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JcnBf-0007Xx-Pm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:46:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JcnBf-0007Xl-Hw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:45:59 -0400 Original-Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JcnBb-0004no-DA; Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:45:55 -0400 Original-Received: from agmgw2.us.oracle.com (agmgw2.us.oracle.com [152.68.180.213]) by agminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id m2LJjq0G026159; Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:45:52 -0500 Original-Received: from acsmt351.oracle.com (acsmt351.oracle.com [141.146.40.151]) by agmgw2.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.0/Switch-3.2.0) with ESMTP id m2L4QtMU026590; Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:45:51 -0600 Original-Received: from inet-141-146-46-1.oracle.com by acsmt351.oracle.com with ESMTP id 3619614011206128652; Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:44:12 -0700 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/141.144.80.154) by bhmail.oracle.com (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:44:12 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <873aqkarad.fsf@W0053328.mgh.harvard.edu> Thread-Index: AciLffD3LGaedzj3SFm2nHz/8d5A8QADUS+A X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 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:52611 Archived-At: > >> > How would you incorporate the output from df into a > >> > dired listing? > >> > >> Why would one like it? Dired already shows that output for the > >> filesystem where the listed directory lives, but I cannot > >> figure out why would I want to see other filesystems together > >> with that? > > > Dired has no equivalent of the My Computer level, I'd guess, because > > of its Unix bias and legacy. That's OK as a historical explanation, > > but it doesn't mean such a feature wouldn't be useful. > > How useful would it be to those of us that use Unix? Not useful at all. I thought that was clear. But how useful to Unix users is Emacs's use of a drive name such as `c:'? Not useful at all - they don't even see it. And they wouldn't see the equivalent of a My Computer level in Dired, either - that would be for Windows users only, just like `c:'. There is not a simple one-to-one mapping between Windows's file-system representation and Unix's, as I mentioned. In one sense, the equivalent of the Unix root folder, for Windows, is the My Computer level. In Dired on Unix you already have such a top-level view. In Dired on Windows, you do not. This is about adding that missing view.