From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Quickly Viewing Files in a File List, and then Quickly Closing
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 16:38:08 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87li1rj7nz.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m2y55rp1g8.fsf@mac.com
Eric Brown <eric.c.brown@mac.com> writes:
> I am looking for a "QuickLook" feature for Emacs. For example, when
> scrolling through a file list in dired (or sunrise commander):
>
> - is it possible to automatically show the contents of the file under
> point in a second window? But if point is moved, quickly move along
> and show the next file/image whatnot?
>
> - is there a "hold-down-button" to view, and let off button to resume
> browsing the file list?
>
> I currently use C-x 1 or C-x o q approaches, but I usually end up with
> e a bunch of buffers or sore fingers when going through many files.
>
> Does anyone have suggestions? I apologize if the answer is sitting in
> the Emacs manual.
Dired has some very nice shortcuts for this sort of thing: If you hit
"v" on a file, you'll visit it in view mode, which means you can hit "q"
to close it. So looking quickly though a bunch of text files just means
bouncing between "n", "v" and "q". I think view mode is great.
Also check "o" and "C-o" -- the latter might be all you need. Other than
that, it wouldn't be too hard to write something like a "follow mode"
for dired. If it closed the files afterwards that would be nice.
E
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-18 8:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-18 5:55 Quickly Viewing Files in a File List, and then Quickly Closing Eric Brown
2013-10-18 7:46 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2013-10-18 8:38 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2013-10-18 11:32 ` Alan Schmitt
2013-10-18 14:23 ` Drew Adams
2013-10-18 16:55 ` Drew Adams
2013-10-19 7:13 ` Vagn Johansen
2013-10-28 11:45 ` escherdragon
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