add: dired cursor upon file I was just in

add: dired cursor upon file I was just in

[Dan Jacobson]

Fellas, (or fella (or big fella (or you know who, in particular))),
consider the case when you are in a file, be it editing, or just
viewing, and you get the urge for dired.  You hit C-x d RET.  Why not
have the cursor in that (fresh) dired be resting on the file you were
just on, instead of stubbornly at the first file of the directory?

Yes, this optional behavior would have a variable to turn it off for
the old fuddies.

Dan wants you to add this new feature to emacs.
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Re: add: dired cursor upon file I was just in

[Kai Großjohann]

jidanni@dman.ddts.net (Dan Jacobson) writes:

> Fellas, (or fella (or big fella (or you know who, in particular))),
> consider the case when you are in a file, be it editing, or just
> viewing, and you get the urge for dired.  You hit C-x d RET.  Why not
> have the cursor in that (fresh) dired be resting on the file you were
> just on, instead of stubbornly at the first file of the directory?

There is dired-jump (from dired-x, I think).

kai
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each command's date of birth without looking in OONEWS

[Dan Jacobson]

K> There is dired-jump (from dired-x, I think).

oops.  so there it was all along.  But how long?
PROPOSAL
Want a command that will show just when another command joined emacs,
without one having to pour thru OONEWS files.
For instance, C-x C-j is bound to dired-jump, but for just how long
has this been the case?  Well, such dates could come up with C-h f
output, or maybe another specialized command could be made.  A mere
C-? C-? C-x C-j would tell me
C-x C-j has been bound to dired-jump since 3 Sep 1998
dired-jump has existed since 2 Sep 1997
it was implemented by RMS
upon the urging of Chip Fiasco
with the assistance of Chuck Burger
after an idea posted by Clark Kvnt 

OK, it is easy enough to see the source dired-x.el however the dates
of birth of each individual command have been thrown away, and all be
know is the date list at the top of the file...

Anyways, maybe put the date of birth of each function into its
docstring. I mean many man pages have "a xxxx command existed in
Version 7 UNIX", "Example of <xxx> in HTML 2.0, 3.2..."
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Re: each command's date of birth without looking in OONEWS

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

Dan Jacobson <jidanni@dman.ddts.net> writes:
> OK, it is easy enough to see the source dired-x.el however the dates
> of birth of each individual command have been thrown away, and all be
> know is the date list at the top of the file...

And ChangeLog's do what job exactly?  C-x C-j has been bound to
dired-jump since dired-x got added to Emacs.

emacs/lisp/ChangeLog.4
1994-01-15  Richard Stallman  (rms@mole.gnu.ai.mit.edu)

        * dired-x.el: New file.

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Alfred M. Szmidt

Re: each command's date of birth without looking in OONEWS

[Dan Jacobson]

>>>>> "A" == Alfred M Szmidt <ams@kemisten.nu> writes:

A> Dan Jacobson <jidanni@dman.ddts.net> writes:
>> OK, it is easy enough to see the source dired-x.el however the dates
>> of birth of each individual command have been thrown away, and all be
>> know is the date list at the top of the file...

A> And ChangeLog's do what job exactly?  C-x C-j has been bound to
A> dired-jump since dired-x got added to Emacs.

A> emacs/lisp/ChangeLog.4
A> 1994-01-15  Richard Stallman  (rms@mole.gnu.ai.mit.edu)

A>         * dired-x.el: New file.

well, I don't see the guarantee of the granularity being able to track
each individual command's birthdate under this habit of record
keeping.  I mean how could one be sure buffer-disable-undo was a
Sagittarius and toggle-horizontal-scroll-bar wasn't an Aquarius?  Uh
oh, 5:00 and time for my medication.  Please excuse me.
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