From: Enila Nero <geortal@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: hide/show in dired
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 23:50:37 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uoenb8885.fsf@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: un02wokxs.fsf@hotmail.com
Mathias Dahl <brakjoller@hotmail.com> writes:
> Enila Nero <geortal@yahoo.com> writes:
>
>> I have looked around for hide/show functionality in dired, but
>> couldn't find anything. What I mean, is to be able to give a regexp
>> and dired would limit the display to matching files only. Then, to be
>> able to redisplay all the files.
>>
>> This behavior would analogous to gnus-summary-limit-to-* and
>> gnus-summary-pop-limit in gnus, where articles are hidden and then
>> popped.
>>
>> The closest functionality I found is the dired-omit-extensions in
>> dired-x.el and dired-wipe.el, but don't quite have the above
>> behavior.
>
> You might find the following links useful:
>
> * http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/Dired-and-Find.html#Dired%20and%20Find
> * http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/Dired-Updating.html#Dired%20Updating
>
> /Mathias
Thank you for the useful links. Certainly there is a lot of related
functionality there. To do exactly what I asked:
% m regexp (to mark all files matching a regular expression)
kill-all-unmarked-file-lines (couldn't find such functionality)
g (to redisplay the directory)
Enila
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-22 23:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-20 20:21 hide/show in dired Enila Nero
2004-06-21 17:55 ` Mathias Dahl
2004-06-22 23:50 ` Enila Nero [this message]
2004-06-23 6:04 ` Mathias Dahl
2004-06-24 23:37 ` Enila Nero
2004-06-30 15:38 ` Kai Grossjohann
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