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From: Martin Fischer <nospam@nospam.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: have installed cygwin, & "its" emacs. dired shows only subtree, no "up"
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 22:15:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874p4aa81j.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: gb3a9o$579$1@panix1.panix.com


(David Combs) writes:

> Installed cygwin on my wife's pc.  Told it to grab, among
> other things, emacs.
>
> I run emacs, hit C-x d (dired), and shows me only
> (I forget now) /home/....   With three files, (bash profile,
> and two .xxxxrc files, and NO directories).
>
> Seems that that's my "universe".
>
> So as to go "up" in the dir-tree, I hit the "^", but
> does nothing.

Hi,

you may also try to feed the dired prompt with somthing like "c:/" or
"/cygdrive/c" or "/c".

Cheers

Martin
---
parozusa at web dot de


  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-09-20 20:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-20 17:01 have installed cygwin, & "its" emacs. dired shows only subtree, no "up" David Combs
2008-09-20 19:25 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
2008-09-20 20:15 ` Martin Fischer [this message]
2008-09-21  1:26   ` David Combs
2008-09-21  1:45     ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
     [not found]     ` <mailman.19631.1221961544.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-09-21  3:30       ` rustom
2008-09-21  4:30         ` David Combs
2008-09-21  5:06           ` rustom
2008-09-22 19:45             ` David Combs
2008-09-21 17:58           ` Will Parsons
2008-09-22  5:10             ` Drew Adams
     [not found]             ` <mailman.19670.1222060252.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-09-22 19:57               ` David Combs
2008-09-22 21:00                 ` Drew Adams

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