From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "bcochofel" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: dired mode or norton commander Date: 7 Dec 2006 05:01:52 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1165496512.007030.183020@n67g2000cwd.googlegroups.com> References: <1165490308.371830.294280@f1g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1165493001.140885.125140@f1g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1165494472.611283.61020@73g2000cwn.googlegroups.com> <1165495059.090136.189170@80g2000cwy.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1165498886 18925 80.91.229.10 (7 Dec 2006 13:41:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 13:41:26 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 07 14:41:26 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 1GsJUu-0007kH-QN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Dec 2006 14:41:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GsJUu-0006Zn-Co for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Dec 2006 08:41:12 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.icl.net!proxad.net!216.239.36.134.MISMATCH!postnews.google.com!n67g2000cwd.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 38 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.13.115.63 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1165496524 31675 127.0.0.1 (7 Dec 2006 13:02:04 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 13:02:04 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <1165495059.090136.189170@80g2000cwy.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20060911 SUSE/1.5.0.8-0.1 Firefox/1.5.0.8,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: n67g2000cwd.googlegroups.com; posting-host=213.13.115.63; posting-account=KQ4asAwAAADqisVynLNiDebPm5CHX-42 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:143717 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:39319 Archived-At: The dirs '.' and '..' don't work when I press RET but work with 'a' key... I was used to use RET key, guess I got to change to 'a'... I really want to use norton commander, I like very much being able to (copy, move) from left to right... Is there any way to make dired show 2 side by side windows? (Without C-x 3...) On Dec 7, 12:37 pm, "Robert Thorpe" wrote: > 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?