From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Jacobson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: dired needs symlink inderction gradual stripper Date: 16 Jul 2002 06:37:20 +0800 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <874rf0aa8v.fsf@jidanni.org> References: <87y9cdswuh.fsf@jidanni.org> <3D32FFB9.1070906@ihs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1026776186 26119 127.0.0.1 (15 Jul 2002 23:36:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 23:36:26 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17UFOD-0006nA-00 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 01:36:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17UFOC-0005uP-00; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 19:36:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mailbox4.ucsd.edu ([132.239.1.56]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17UFN9-0005rV-00 for ; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 19:35:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.fu-berlin.de (mail.fu-berlin.de [160.45.11.165]) by mailbox4.ucsd.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6FNTtLV077942 for ; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 16:29:55 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by mail.fu-berlin.de (Smail3.2.0.98) from Curry.ZEDAT.FU-Berlin.DE (160.45.10.36) with esmtp id ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 01:29:55 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: by Curry.ZEDAT.FU-Berlin.DE (Smail3.2.0.98) from news.fu-berlin.de with bsmtp id ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 01:29:54 +0200 (MEST) Original-To: gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org Original-Path: 61-227-44-128.hinet-ip.hinet.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 27 X-Orig-NNTP-Posting-Host: 61-227-44-128.hinet-ip.hinet.net (61.227.44.128) X-Orig-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1026775794 25261944 61.227.44.128 (16 [99749]) X-Orig-Path: 127.0.0.1!nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 X-MailScanner: Passed Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:2710 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:2710 >>>>> "K" == Kevin Rodgers writes: K> Dan Jacobson wrote: >> I bet dired can't do this basic want: >> I am sitting on top of >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 5 28 21:39 words -> /etc/alternatives/dictionary >> and I would like, with just a keystroke, arrive at a revised dired >> listing, i.e. that file now from the standpoint of /etc/alternatives >> [which indeed is still a symbolic link, whereas i would execute the >> command again, if i liked, to see the file listing with yet another >> level of inderction stripped. >> Notice that I don't want to see the file contents, else I would hit >> RET in the first place. K> Does `C-u s L RET' do what you want? >> Notice that I don't want to strip all the symlinks at once, but rather >> one by one, so I can learn just what's going on with my multi layered >> symlinks, unless i suppose, i give an C-u prefix or something. K> A symbolic link does not have "layers". ok. a points to b, b points to c. your solution zooms one to c, while I wanted to go in steps. -- http://jidanni.org/ Taiwan(04)25854780