From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jpkotta Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: two dired questions Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 10:48:38 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1272989460 2020 80.91.229.12 (4 May 2010 16:11:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 16:11:00 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 04 18:10:59 2010 connect(): No such file or directory 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O9Ki3-0007ZZ-1N for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 18:10:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37323 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O9Ki2-0003AD-EW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 12:10:58 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!19g2000yqu.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 34 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.122.85.37 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1267814918 19094 127.0.0.1 (5 Mar 2010 18:48:38 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 18:48:38 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: 19g2000yqu.googlegroups.com; posting-host=64.122.85.37; posting-account=EwI0QQoAAADdqmqX_mVfawBNtwyks2YE User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux x86_64; U; en) Presto/2.2.15 Version/10.10,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:177370 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:72914 Archived-At: On Mar 4, 8:10=A0am, "B. T. Raven" wrote: > i. > Is there a function or, better yet, a keychord that backspaces (by > erasing) subdirectory components in the minibuffer. So, if the current > directory is deeply embedded in the file hierarchy, can I hit a key > combo to move backwards (upwards toward the root) in the directory tree: > > c:\abc\def\ghi\jkl > becomes > c:\abc\def\ghi > then > c:\abc\def > > etc. > > ??? > In ido-mode, this is the default behavior of backspace. ido-mode isn't for everyone, though, so backward-kill-word a good approximation. > ii. > Is there a setting that overwrites the dired buffer with the new one > navigated to (or alternatively kills the one navigated from), so that > there is only one dired buffer at a time instead of a long trail of them? > I use the dired+ package with (toggle-dired-find-file-reuse-dir 1). > Thanks for any help, > > Ed