From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Unknown Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: list a directory Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2003 03:37:36 GMT Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <40f8a.25472$em1.19925@news04.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com> References: <3E613530.4000405@hotmail.com> <87y93yirk7.fsf@gnufans.net> <3E615A82.1070304@hotmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1046576434 20121 80.91.224.249 (2 Mar 2003 03:40:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 03:40:34 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18pKL0-0005EP-00 for ; Sun, 02 Mar 2003 04:40:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18pKL3-0001vs-02 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Mar 2003 22:40:33 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cyclone.bc.net!sjc70.webusenet.com!news.webusenet.com!news03.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com!news04.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-From: Le Wang Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 User-Agent: KNode/0.7.1 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.192.182.203 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@rogers.com Original-X-Trace: news04.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com 1046576256 24.192.182.203 (Sat, 01 Mar 2003 22:37:36 EST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2003 22:37:36 EST Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:110742 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:7243 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:7243 > ck wrote: > >> I used to type c-x f , then I can view list of file in >> current directory. I could not view a list file in a directory >> after I re-install xemacs. Did I miss something. You missed something. Are your packages installed correctly? i.e. can you run dired at all? roodwriter wrote: > You have the commands confused. C-x C-f is for opening a file or for > creating one where there isn't one. It's not for viewing the directory. > > C-x d, as stated by D. Goel, is for viewing a directory. > > Unless it works differently on Windows than on Linux. Unless you're running some kind of special Linux, should open files *or* directory everywhere, on both emacsen. -- Le