From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "seberino@spawar.navy.mil" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: How make Dired automatically load file if you input a file path? Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 13:29:52 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <614c06ee-4306-4799-9f5d-858d84c80305@n33g2000pri.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1229377295 8045 80.91.229.12 (15 Dec 2008 21:41:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:41:35 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 15 22:42:40 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 1LCLD3-0003zJ-BM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:42:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38616 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LCLBr-0004oh-9U for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:41:23 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!n33g2000pri.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 11 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 99.204.233.169 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1229376592 26187 127.0.0.1 (15 Dec 2008 21:29:52 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:29:52 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: n33g2000pri.googlegroups.com; posting-host=99.204.233.169; posting-account=VkuUtQkAAADKqMjRUmZTNs7a8uCSNNy2 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008061015 Firefox/3.0,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:165315 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:60647 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 chris