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: How make Dired automatically load file if you input a file path? Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:07:08 -0800 Message-ID: <00ab01c95f01$796afaf0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> References: <614c06ee-4306-4799-9f5d-858d84c80305@n33g2000pri.googlegroups.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 1229378993 13909 80.91.229.12 (15 Dec 2008 22:09:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:09:53 +0000 (UTC) To: , Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 15 23:10:57 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 1LCLe4-0005iY-1B for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:10:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35273 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LCLcs-0008SL-0o for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:09:18 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LCLas-0007dn-2I for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:07:14 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LCLap-0007bL-Ff for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:07:13 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49202 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LCLao-0007bD-F6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:07:10 -0500 Original-Received: from rcsinet11.oracle.com ([148.87.113.123]:53249 helo=rgminet11.oracle.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LCLan-0008Pn-Nm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:07:10 -0500 Original-Received: from rgminet15.oracle.com (rcsinet15.oracle.com [148.87.113.117]) by rgminet11.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id mBFM8Fjc023275 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:08:16 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt706.oracle.com (acsmt706.oracle.com [141.146.40.84]) by rgminet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id mBFM7Dhm011229; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:07:14 GMT Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/141.144.82.150) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:07:02 +0000 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <614c06ee-4306-4799-9f5d-858d84c80305@n33g2000pri.googlegroups.com> Thread-Index: Acle/egRS9KJvYkdRUaY7h/86IV7nQAA0L7A X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3350 X-Source-IP: acsmt706.oracle.com [141.146.40.84] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090203.4946D509.0197:SCFSTAT928724,ss=1,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) 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:60651 Archived-At: > Dired initially asks you for a directory path. > If you give it a file path you will see a listing > with just that one file. > > How make Dired *AUTOMATICALLY* load that file if you initially gave it > a file path instead of a directory path? > e.g. /etc/fstab instead of /etc Use `find-file' (`C-x C-f'), not `dired' (`C-x d'). C-x C-f /etc opens Dired on /etc C-x C-f /etc/fstab visits file fstab