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: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:28:45 +0000 Organization: SunSITE.dk - Supporting Open source Message-ID: <4b9579bc$0$272$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> References: <4b93fdc2$0$282$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> 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 1272991129 9062 80.91.229.12 (4 May 2010 16:38:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 16:38:49 +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 18:38:47 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 1O9L8x-0005Xl-0z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 18:38:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41685 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O9L8w-00018F-Gi for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 12:38:46 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!news.net.uni-c.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: 27 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.56.68.180 Original-X-Trace: news.sunsite.dk DXC=[Q7U_327[hB?ZCK:; haR=OYSB=nbEKnkK8J_PLA?D6RM5fdD?L8VmBHOOn[7LY1L_EQScK68eBi5G; QNS\SSPXnG=`B>8HMEIDHBfV1F?f:QZOZ6DLYEhCE8F Original-X-Complaints-To: staff@sunsite.dk Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:177411 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:72938 Archived-At: B. T. Raven wrote: > Colin S. Miller wrote: > > Thanks, Colin. C-x C-j must be new in ver. 23 since it's undefined by > default in my 22.3 distro. In both versions you should be able to > replace the current dired buffer with its parent (unless you're in the > root) by navigating to the .. entry (e.g. with a series of < or > > presses) and then pressing 'a' > > tnx, > > Ed Ed, Ah. I normally use xemacs, not GNU emacs, and assumed that it also works in emacs. In emacs 22.2.1, the function you want is dired-jump [under xemacs it's dired-jump-back]. For some reason it's not bound by default in GNU emacs, but binds itself the first time you use it. SFAC, Colin S. Miller -- Replace the obvious in my email address with the first three letters of the hostname to reply.