From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Robert Thorpe" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: dired mode or norton commander Date: 7 Dec 2006 04:37:39 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1165495059.090136.189170@80g2000cwy.googlegroups.com> References: <1165490308.371830.294280@f1g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1165493001.140885.125140@f1g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1165494472.611283.61020@73g2000cwn.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1165495305 4998 80.91.229.10 (7 Dec 2006 12:41:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 12:41:45 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 07 13:41:44 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GsIZL-00089f-LL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Dec 2006 13:41:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GsIZL-0005PV-87 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Dec 2006 07:41:43 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!80g2000cwy.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 32 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.94.228.210 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1165495065 27897 127.0.0.1 (7 Dec 2006 12:37:45 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 12:37:45 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <1165494472.611283.61020@73g2000cwn.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) X-HTTP-Via: 1.0 EMF3ASPROXY03 Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: 80g2000cwy.googlegroups.com; posting-host=213.94.228.210; posting-account=hWoAPxMAAAAnBKSBz1ZivwUPPjEuve7bvVCHZQ8rhrluPfwcBJd92w Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:143715 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:39317 Archived-At: bcochofel wrote: > Well, I've tried: > ;------------------------------------------------------------- > (defun dired-follow-file () > (interactive) > (let ((filename (dired-get-filename))) > (if (file-directory-p filename) > (find-alternate-file filename) > (dired-find-file)))) > > (defun dired-setup-follow-file () > (substitute-key-definition > 'dired-find-file 'dired-follow-file dired-mode-map) > (substitute-key-definition > 'dired-advertised-find-file 'dired-follow-file dired-mode-map)) > > (add-hook 'dired-mode-hook 'dired-setup-follow-file) > ;--------------------------------------------------------------- > > But I cannot change to dirs '.' and '..', I get: > > "Cannot operate on '.' or '..' That's weird. It works fine for me. > Using the "a" key I get a message asking if I want to use in all > sessions this options and I answer yes... No good... That is even weirder. What does it say when you type C-h k a from within dired? What version of Emacs are you using?