From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Looking for Dired mode to comment directory listing Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 05:09:00 -0000 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1184648940.399581.10860@e9g2000prf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1184650862 9843 80.91.229.12 (17 Jul 2007 05:41:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 05:41:02 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 17 07:41:00 2007 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 1IAfnv-0001aV-P0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 07:41:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IAfnv-0002zY-0q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 01:40:59 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!e9g2000prf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 22 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 202.88.85.104 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1184648941 14149 127.0.0.1 (17 Jul 2007 05:09:01 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 05:09:01 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: e9g2000prf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=202.88.85.104; posting-account=ps2QrAMAAAA6_jCuRt2JEIpn5Otqf_w0 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:150158 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:45743 Archived-At: At one time, 4dos, an alternate M$DOG shell, enabled a file listing command to include a comment. In the days of 8+3 filenames, this was simple feature improved my work output considerably. Later on, GNU/ Linux with extremely long filenames worked ok, and I was able to forget about 4dos. It occurs to me, however, that it might be possible to do a similar thing with dired, transparently. Is it currently possible? I saw an ipa.el, In Pace Annotations, on the emacs.sources group/list (http:// www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs/ipa.el), enabling commentary annotations to be saved in separate files, and viewed transparently. To use this feature for directory listings, however, it would be necessary to save the listing to a file. Or would it? I have received comments in the past, that long filenames are enough. I could still use other kinds of comments, for example, with photos, and it would seem to be more convenient. Thanks for any ideas. Alan