From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to get `item in directory' count in dired Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 08:25:15 -0700 Message-ID: References: <87prv0dqk7.fsf@newsguy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1203175549 17991 80.91.229.12 (16 Feb 2008 15:25:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 15:25:49 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 16 16:26:13 2008 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 4.50) id 1JQOvc-0002D3-MF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 16 Feb 2008 16:26:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JQOv8-0005wW-GZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 16 Feb 2008 10:25:42 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JQOut-0005wE-Px for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Feb 2008 10:25:27 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JQOus-0005w0-63 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Feb 2008 10:25:27 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JQOus-0005vx-2y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Feb 2008 10:25:26 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JQOur-0007BG-Kl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Feb 2008 10:25:25 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JQOuj-00025x-4F for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Feb 2008 15:25:17 +0000 Original-Received: from c-67-162-159-170.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([67.162.159.170]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 16 Feb 2008 15:25:17 +0000 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-67-162-159-170.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 16 Feb 2008 15:25:17 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 37 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-162-159-170.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Macintosh/20071031) In-Reply-To: <87prv0dqk7.fsf@newsguy.com> X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:51588 Archived-At: reader@newsguy.com wrote: > How can I have a permanent item count in the directory view. Maybe in > the mode line or something. > > I want to see how many files/directories are in the dired buffer at a glance > without keyboard cmds or other effort. Nice exercise: (define-minor-mode dired-count-files-mode "*Display the number of files in the Dired mode line." nil (:eval (format " %d files" dired-count-files)) nil (if dired-count-files-mode (progn (add-hook 'dired-before-readin-hook 'dired-count-files-reset) (add-hook 'dired-after-readin-hook 'dired-count-files-total)) (progn (remove-hook 'dired-before-readin-hook 'dired-count-files-reset) (remove-hook 'dired-after-readin-hook 'dired-count-files-total)))) (defvar dired-count-files 0 "The number of files in the Dired buffer.") (defun dired-count-files-reset () (set (make-local-variable 'dired-count-files) 0)) (defun dired-count-files-total () (goto-char (point-min)) (search-forward-regexp dired-move-to-filename-regexp nil t) (set (make-local-variable 'dired-count-files) (+ dired-count-files (count-lines (line-beginning-position) (point-max))))) -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA