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From: "oliver" <oliver_baumann@nospam.justemail.net>
Subject: Re: dired: how to open the containing directory, where a selectedfiles is resides in
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 12:17:12 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cgbk18$2l9i$1@otis.netspace.net.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.2272.1093180215.2011.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org


"Kai Grossjohann" <kai@emptydomain.de> wrote in message 
news:mailman.2272.1093180215.2011.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org...
> "oliver" <oliver_baumann@nospam.justemail.net> writes:
>
>> 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.
>
> You could use RET to open the file, then M-x dired-jump RET to go to
> the directory.  Problem: you have one useless buffer.

thanks for this. however this procedure describes exactly what i'm used to 
do. and it isn't particulaly elegant. additionally, if the case is big 
and/or binary these approach adds some significant overhead.

so, i'm still searching for a better solution.

cheers, oliver 

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-08-23  2:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-16  3:35 dired: how to open the containing directory, where a selected files is resides in oliver
2004-08-16 14:24 ` Frederik Fouvry
2004-08-17  0:11   ` oliver
2004-08-22 13:04     ` Kai Grossjohann
     [not found]     ` <mailman.2272.1093180215.2011.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-08-23  2:17       ` oliver [this message]
2004-08-28 14:26 ` Kai Grossjohann

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