dired-mode-hook

dired-mode-hook

[Doug Lewan]

There's a hook that I'd like to use with dired mode. It would position the cursor on a preferred file in that directory.

When dired-mode-hooks are called the buffer isn't yet "painted" with its contents. (For example, (point-max) returns 1.) So, all those great dired-mode functions (like dired-goto-file, which I want) don't do anything.

Am I doing something wrong? Is there some way to force the dired-mode buffer to have contents? Is it a bug in dired?

Thanks for any help.

,Douglas
Douglas Lewan
Shubert Ticketing
(201) 489-8600 ext 224

LISP: The most intelligent way to misuse a computer.

Re: dired-mode-hook

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Doug Lewan <dougl@shubertticketing.com>
> Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 15:48:53 +0000
> 
> There's a hook that I'd like to use with dired mode. It would position the cursor on a preferred file in that directory.
> 
> When dired-mode-hooks are called the buffer isn't yet "painted" with its contents. (For example, (point-max) returns 1.) So, all those great dired-mode functions (like dired-goto-file, which I want) don't do anything.
> 
> Am I doing something wrong? Is there some way to force the dired-mode buffer to have contents? Is it a bug in dired?

I think you want dired-initial-position-hook instead.

RE: dired-mode-hook

[Drew Adams]

> I think you want dired-initial-position-hook instead.

FWIW -
For that, you need Emacs 24.4 (soon) or a recent development version.

RE: dired-mode-hook

[Doug Lewan]

Recently I asked
> 
> There's a hook that I'd like to use with dired mode. It would position
> the cursor on a preferred file in that directory.
> 

Eli Zaretskii wrote
> I think you want dired-initial-position-hook instead.

That's conceptually right, but I don't find it anywhere.

Drew Adams wrote
> FWIW -
> For that, you need Emacs 24.4 (soon) or a recent development version.

:-o I've spent the last day at ftp.gnu.org/future and gotten nothing. Darn!

Thanks for the responses and help.

,Douglas
Douglas Lewan
Shubert Ticketing
(201) 489-8600 ext 224

LISP: The most intelligent way to misuse a computer.

Re: dired-mode-hook

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Doug Lewan <dougl@shubertticketing.com>
> Date: Thu, 1 May 2014 15:03:04 +0000
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote
> > I think you want dired-initial-position-hook instead.
> 
> That's conceptually right, but I don't find it anywhere.
> 
> Drew Adams wrote
> > FWIW -
> > For that, you need Emacs 24.4 (soon) or a recent development version.
> 
> :-o I've spent the last day at ftp.gnu.org/future and gotten nothing. Darn!

Try here:

  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/