From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tak Kunihiro Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: How make Dired open selected files in a SPECIFIC window when there are multiple windows? Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 19:38:33 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <20150218.193833.76064751.tak.kunihiro@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1424256249 2464 80.91.229.3 (18 Feb 2015 10:44:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 10:44:09 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 18 11:44:01 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YO26q-0006CQ-Vm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Feb 2015 11:44:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49775 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YO26q-0001Xk-Hh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Feb 2015 05:44:00 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37406) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YO21l-0002Fa-Pe for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Feb 2015 05:38:46 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YO21i-0001RS-Er for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Feb 2015 05:38:45 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-pd0-f182.google.com ([209.85.192.182]:43053) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YO21i-0001RN-9N for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Feb 2015 05:38:42 -0500 Original-Received: by pdev10 with SMTP id v10so239738pde.10 for ; Wed, 18 Feb 2015 02:38:41 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=date:message-id:to:subject:from:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=pyEOwF8TDs+d8g9Lk2JwCcF0YcwN7vwHxYvTjCn6SyM=; b=SaN713OnVNQO+CaKOuDWGRpqSXteEsBX2WJ17JmksZ79WXW5wzlSZMcFmqmn3tmLY6 EHWk6C1JLKQagdMBLKPafG2hnRiFjNR8mp+KOjfiDv01XwytwfiHNGOjW9vFW7d6scBN KqBuKpJ6zfx2EwJytJLWkZZmNgxQsRHs3Q6S7RqpqMrSckN3/KK1F4xEhBOvTCVJJ66e 2TYsXLO1UqsuczO/SLDzeTgBQJlKtYXvnVEIG/PwUADJvrC0IJXVk/D5nICFBqI7ejGB 2K8Bk/sOxU9SpJza6vP7AuxK67yBzcJBxM3uYLfigxAmifZCOKJLCvSAUjJ5POwIt+LW /otQ== X-Received: by 10.66.120.47 with SMTP id kz15mr57244398pab.35.1424255921451; Wed, 18 Feb 2015 02:38:41 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from localhost (dspin2.misasa.okayama-u.ac.jp. [150.46.48.104]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id ju5sm20236075pbb.27.2015.02.18.02.38.39 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 18 Feb 2015 02:38:40 -0800 (PST) X-Mailer: Mew version 6.6 on Emacs 24.4 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 209.85.192.182 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:102783 Archived-At: You can freeze the Dired window. (global-set-key (kbd "C-x 9") 'freeze-window) (defun freeze-window () "Freeze or lock a window where point is. Call again to unfreeze. Technically this toggles window-dedicate-p property of a window." (interactive) (let ((frozenp (window-dedicated-p (selected-window))) (win (selected-window))) (set-window-dedicated-p win (not frozenp)) (message (format "%s is %s" win (if (not frozenp) "frozen" "free"))))) > I'd like to keep a small Dired window open that I can keep selecting > files from, and, have them all open in a specific big window. > > (I'm basically trying to mimic an IDE where you have a "file chooser" widget.) > > How do that?