From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dieter Wilhelm Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: dired in one buffer Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 10:24:43 +0200 Organization: The Church of Emacs Message-ID: <873bbrbyr8.fsf@hans.local.net> References: <20060816.092016.26494.579978@webmail51.nyc.untd.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1156102778 2847 80.91.229.2 (20 Aug 2006 19:39:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 19:39:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 20 21:39:36 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GEt8x-0003GL-KZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 21:39:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GEt8x-0003CB-0g for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 15:39:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GEsib-0006Ih-9c for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 15:12:21 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GEsiX-0006C7-8N for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 15:12:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GEsiX-0006Bx-1y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 15:12:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [212.227.126.183] (helo=moutng.kundenserver.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GEspk-0006HY-J1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 15:19:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [84.167.48.75] (helo=duenenhof-wilhelm.de) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu6) with ESMTP (Nemesis), id 0ML29c-1GEsiA3Gfj-0002Oe; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 21:11:58 +0200 Original-Received: by duenenhof-wilhelm.de (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8EEF24F400; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 10:24:43 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: "Drew Adams" In-Reply-To: (Drew Adams's message of "Fri, 18 Aug 2006 16:18:17 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de login:d7ab225b98a136e1c2910381f940ecb9 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:36788 Archived-At: "Drew Adams" writes: > dired-find-alternate-file (normally assigned to the 'a' key in dired- > mode) replaces the current buffer (the dired buffer) with the > file/directory that the cursor is on. > > Just thought I'd mention that you can also use `C-x C-v' to do this. Instead > of substituting the file or directory where the cursor is, it prompts you > for the file or directory name. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ It escaped my imagination that `C-x C-v' also can be used in dired for replacing the directory listing. Thank you for mentioning this. -- Best wishes H. Dieter Wilhelm Darmstadt, Germany