From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Mario_Domg=F6rgen?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: navigating in dired Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 15:58:28 +0100 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <877jy7l08b.fsf@ID-97899.news.uni-berlin.de> References: <87vfludy0q.fsf@rechner1.ddorf.de> <871xoi44nn.fsf@ID-97899.news.uni-berlin.de> <87ishsbtu8.fsf@rechner1.ddorf.de> <403F7BDB.2080605@yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1077981518 7219 80.91.224.253 (28 Feb 2004 15:18:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 15:18:38 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 28 16:18:32 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Ax6Ea-0000A8-00 for ; Sat, 28 Feb 2004 16:18:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1Ax6CZ-0000k6-4t for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Feb 2004 10:16:27 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!xdsl-213-196-251-193.netcologne.DE!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 29 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: xdsl-213-196-251-193.netcologne.de (213.196.251.193) Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1077980746 56135403 I 213.196.251.193 ([97899]) X-Orig-Path: ID-97899.news.uni-berlin.de!news User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:q0lT32g2fMhOHtgPBG3CmXy+VMc= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:121353 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:17307 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:17307 Kevin Rodgers writes: > Fabian Braennstroem wrote: > > Mario Domgo"rgen writes: > >>Fabian Braennstroem writes: > >>>I start using 'dired' instead of the 'Midnight-Commander' and now, I > >>>am looking for some feature 'mc' has. Right now, my biggest problem > >>>is to navigate in a directory with a lot of subdirectories and > >>>files. Let's say I want to got to the file 'main' in that > >>>directory. In 'mc' I could type 'm' and the cursor jumps to the first > >>>word beginning with 'm'. How can I jump to this file quickly? Maybe, > >>>anybody has a function for that!? > >> > >>You have the ful power of emacs in dired. Just use C-s or C-r ... > > > > But when I want to jump to /root I first find dozens of 'r' in the > > mode-column. That is not the nicest way. > > I understand what you want, and I agree it'd be a nice feature. In the > meantime, try this: * % r RET M-} Ah, sorry, i mistyped a "R" instead of "F" in Gnus and so i just send a personal replay to Fabian... for the archive: Just use M-g for dired-goto-file to jump to specific files... HTH Mario