Re: Looking for Dired mode to comment directory listing

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On Jul 17, 7:09 am, Alan <lngn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> At one time, 4dos, an alternate M$DOG shell, enabled a file listing
> command to include a comment.  In the days of 8+3 filenames, this was
> simple feature improved my work output considerably.  Later on, GNU/
> Linux with extremely long filenames worked ok, and I was able to
> forget about 4dos.
>
> It occurs to me, however, that it might be possible to do a similar
> thing with dired, transparently.  Is it currently possible?  I saw an
> ipa.el, In Pace Annotations,  on the emacs.sources group/list (http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs/ipa.el), enabling commentary
> annotations  to be saved in separate files, and viewed transparently.
> To use this feature for directory listings, however, it would be
> necessary to save the listing to a file.  Or would it?
>

Not necessarily. I can add some code to ipa.el which would use the
displayed directory as file name if the current buffer is in Dired
mode.

The only thing I need is a way to determine the path of the currently
displayed directory in Dired. If someone provides this code then I add
the rest to ipa.el.