From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Jump to directory from a *Locate* buffer
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 01:53:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a91kj24i.fsf@wmi.amu.edu.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150114155022210190670@bob.proulx.com>
On 2015-01-14, at 23:57, Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> wrote:
> Marcin Borkowski wrote:
>> imagine that I run M-x locate to find some file, and I want to open
>> Dired in the directory one of the found files is in. Is there a way to
>> do it or should I write some Elisp for that?
>
> What I do in that situation, already at the beginning of the file
> name, is to C-space to set the mark then C-f to the end of the
> directory name. Then M-w copy to the kill ring. Then C-x C-f C-y RET
> to find-file and yank in the directory and open it in dired mode.
>
> However using locate generates a dired buffer meaning all of those
> commands are available too. The 'w' command copies the filename. The
> 0w command copies the full pathname of the file. Therefore an
> alternative could be to 0w on that filename to copy the entire full
> pathname to the kill ring. Then C-x C-f C-y and then DEL or M-DEL to
> delete the filename part and then RET when the path is just the
> directory name.
Thanks, though neither of your ways is very, let's say, "Emacs-ish": you
wouldn't win the Emacs Golf contest with them. (Neither would I, for
that matter: my usual method is to open a file in the *Locate* list and
then hit C-x C-d RET.)
> I am sure there are other ways too.
Definitely there /should/ be. And if there are not, someone has to code
them. (I need this almost on a daily basis, so it's definitely worth
optimizing.)
> Bob
Best,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-14 21:35 Jump to directory from a *Locate* buffer Marcin Borkowski
2015-01-14 22:57 ` Bob Proulx
2015-01-15 0:53 ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2015-01-15 1:14 ` John Mastro
2015-01-15 5:52 ` Marcin Borkowski
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