From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "oliver" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: dired: how to open the containing directory, where a selected files is resides in Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 10:11:33 +1000 Organization: Netspace Internet Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1092701767 31791 80.91.224.253 (17 Aug 2004 00:16:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 00:16:07 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 17 02:16:00 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Bwrdw-0006JQ-00 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2004 02:16:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Bwri4-0004Yy-Cx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Aug 2004 20:20:16 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!HSNX.atgi.net!newsfeed.iinet.net.au!newsfeed.iinet.net.au!203.10.110.105.MISMATCH!news.netspace.net.au!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 39 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl-210-15-204-246.nsw.netspace.net.au Original-X-Trace: otis.netspace.net.au 1092701438 81776 210.15.204.246 (17 Aug 2004 00:10:38 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@otis.netspace.net.au Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 00:10:38 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:124803 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:20150 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:20150 "Frederik Fouvry" wrote in message news:gzacwv2mb0.fsf@cc.at.coli.uni-sb.de... > > ,-- One day, you wrote: > | NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 03:34:56 +0000 (UTC) > | > | hi there > | > | in dired buffers (particulaly when created by dired-find) i quite often > want > | to open the directory where listed files reside in. eg. in a dired > buffer > | the cursor is on a line like > | > | -rw-rw-rw- 1 6264 Aug 11 12:34 source/XPImageList/AlphaImage.pas > | > | then i want to open the directory "XPImageList" in a seperate dired > buffer. > | is there any dired command accomplishing this, or does anybody knows > about a > | appropriate add-on? > > C-x 4 C-j (from dired-x) thanks, but with dired-jump i go to the parent dir of the current dir. it does show the dir, which contains thye file on teh urerent line. eg. if the find buffer has the curernt dir C:/dev/img-select and in there the cursor is on the line -rw-rw-rw- 1 6264 Aug 11 12:34 source/XPImageList/AlphaImage.pas. then dired-jump shows a dired buffer of the directory C:/dev. but obviously i want C:/dev/img-select/source/XPImageList. cheers, leo