From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: mowgli Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Quite a few emacs questions Date: 17 May 2007 17:33:39 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1179448419.832787.49980@q75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> References: <1179276142.234222.189970@p77g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> <1179430428.737521.121530@p77g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> <1179438643.818287.167270@w5g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1179451928 6165 80.91.229.12 (18 May 2007 01:32:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 01:32:08 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 18 03:32:07 2007 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 1HorKA-0003a0-Rj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 May 2007 03:32:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HorSK-0002UM-6y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 May 2007 21:40:32 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newshub.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!q75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 15 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 221.128.144.233 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1179448420 15655 127.0.0.1 (18 May 2007 00:33:40 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 00:33:40 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070310 Iceweasel/2.0.0.3 (Debian-2.0.0.3-1),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: q75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com; posting-host=221.128.144.233; posting-account=-HXNwg0AAADDAYolbLkw7x9oaDWGNwXB Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:148524 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:44116 Archived-At: On May 18, 5:08 am, Tyler Smith wrote: > Something else you could try is C-x d, which will prompt you for the > directory you want to see. The contents of the directory are put into > a window that you can scroll up and down in, open, rename, delete, > move files, all kinds of stuff. There's a whole suite of commands > available from within this buffer, called dired-mode. You'll need to > read the manual to find out all the details. Thanks for this tip. This surely helped and I'll read more about this in the info. Regards, mowgli