From: Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: navigating in dired
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 10:18:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <403F7BDB.2080605@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87ishsbtu8.fsf@rechner1.ddorf.de
Fabian Braennstroem wrote:
> Mario Domgo"rgen <kanaldrache@gmx.de> writes:
>>Fabian Braennstroem <f.braennstroem@gmx.de> writes:
>>>I start using 'dired' instead of the 'Midnight-Commander' and now, I
>>>am looking for some feature 'mc' has. Right now, my biggest problem
>>>is to navigate in a directory with a lot of subdirectories and
>>>files. Let's say I want to got to the file 'main' in that
>>>directory. In 'mc' I could type 'm' and the cursor jumps to the first
>>>word beginning with 'm'. How can I jump to this file quickly? Maybe,
>>>anybody has a function for that!?
>>
>>You have the ful power of emacs in dired. Just use C-s or C-r ...
>
> But when I want to jump to /root I first find dozens of 'r' in the
> mode-column. That is not the nicest way.
I understand what you want, and I agree it'd be a nice feature. In the
meantime, try this: * % r RET M-}
--
Kevin Rodgers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-27 17:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-26 8:51 navigating in dired Fabian Braennstroem
2004-02-26 8:38 ` Mario Domgörgen
2004-02-27 12:16 ` Fabian Braennstroem
2004-02-27 17:18 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
2004-02-28 14:58 ` Mario Domgörgen
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