From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Colin S. Miller" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: two dired questions Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:27:30 +0000 Organization: SunSITE.dk - Supporting Open source Message-ID: <4b93fdc2$0$282$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1272990418 6126 80.91.229.12 (4 May 2010 16:26:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 16:26:58 +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 May 04 18:26:56 2010 connect(): No such file or directory 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O9KxS-0007q2-Rd for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 18:26:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38190 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O9KxS-0003xO-8p for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 12:26:54 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!feed118.news.tele.dk!dotsrc.org!filter.dotsrc.org!news.dotsrc.org!not-for-mail User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090706) Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 22 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.56.68.180 Original-X-Trace: news.sunsite.dk DXC=; X@4k8[@@bVlW2_Qa?Yk]^YSB=nbEKnk[SJP=CJ?IBnS5fdD?L8VmBXOOn[7LY1L_UQScK68eBi5W; QNS\SSPXnW=`B>8HMEIDXBfV1F?f:QZ_aEZk>J@>dMS Original-X-Complaints-To: staff@sunsite.dk Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:177392 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:72927 Archived-At: B. T. Raven wrote: > i. > Is there a function or, better yet, a keychord that backspaces (by > erasing) subdirectory components in the minibuffer. So, if the current > directory is deeply embedded in the file hierarchy, can I hit a key > combo to move backwards (upwards toward the root) in the directory tree: > Ed, In any buffer (with a file), pressing C-x C-j will open a *dired* buffer containing that file, and move the point to that file's entry. In a *dired* buffer, it opens the parent directory. I'm not sure how to replace the current *dired* buffer with its parent. HTH, Colin S. Miller -- Replace the obvious in my email address with the first three letters of the hostname to reply.