From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Dired hd drives list Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:49:50 -0700 Message-ID: <000301c88ad4$52fb2630$c2b22382@us.oracle.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1206049847 22549 80.91.229.12 (20 Mar 2008 21:50:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:50:47 +0000 (UTC) To: "'Eli Zaretskii'" , Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 20 22:51:16 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 1JcSfJ-0006eZ-3b for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 22:51:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JcSei-00067v-R5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:50:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JcSeP-000671-EI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:50:17 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JcSeN-00066N-PN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:50:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JcSeN-00066H-L2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:50:15 -0400 Original-Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JcSeJ-0003co-NG; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:50:12 -0400 Original-Received: from agmgw1.us.oracle.com (agmgw1.us.oracle.com [152.68.180.212]) by agminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id m2KLo8jO023910; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:50:08 -0500 Original-Received: from acsmt351.oracle.com (acsmt351.oracle.com [141.146.40.151]) by agmgw1.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.0/Switch-3.2.0) with ESMTP id m2KBLH9U000391; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:50:08 -0600 Original-Received: from inet-141-146-46-1.oracle.com by acsmt350.oracle.com with ESMTP id 3620800461206049790; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:49:50 -0700 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/130.35.178.194) by bhmail.oracle.com (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:49:50 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: Thread-Index: AciKys5YfsyxXzrbSDillKl75Pb2PwABjuJg X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:52573 Archived-At: > > How would you incorporate the output from df into a dired listing? > > Why would one like it? Dired already shows that output for the > filesystem where the listed directory lives, but I cannot figure out > why would I want to see other filesystems together with that? I think it would be good - why not? It's what we have in Windows Explorer when My Computer is selected in the folder tree. Saying that this would be useless for Dired is like saying that it is useless for Windows Explorer. It gives you a top-level view of all drives (and, in Windows Explorer, also some other things such as Control Panel). The Unix notion of root directory, /, only partly corresponds to the Windows notion of individual drive root, e.g. c:\. In another sense, it could be said to correspond to My Computer, that is, to a top level that includes all drives. Dired has no equivalent of the My Computer level, I'd guess, because of its Unix bias and legacy. That's OK as a historical explanation, but it doesn't mean such a feature wouldn't be useful.