From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: two dired questions Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 09:50:58 -0700 Message-ID: References: <87r5o0cgvi.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1273037398 28395 80.91.229.12 (5 May 2010 05:29:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 05:29:58 +0000 (UTC) To: "'B. T. Raven'" , Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 05 07:29:57 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O9XBC-0005qr-Ta for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 May 2010 07:29:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50438 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O9XBC-0001xF-75 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 May 2010 01:29:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O9LM5-0001h1-Nh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 12:52:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=60411 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O9LM3-0001g0-GE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 12:52:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O9LM0-0004wq-UJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 12:52:19 -0400 Original-Received: from rcsinet10.oracle.com ([148.87.113.121]:39178) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O9LM0-0004wD-P4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 12:52:16 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet15.oracle.com (acsinet15.oracle.com [141.146.126.227]) by rcsinet10.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.1) with ESMTP id o44GqCjo010165 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 4 May 2010 16:52:13 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt355.oracle.com (acsmt355.oracle.com [141.146.40.155]) by acsinet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.1) with ESMTP id o44GSvfZ031742; Tue, 4 May 2010 16:52:10 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt021.oracle.com by acsmt354.oracle.com with ESMTP id 235666841272991862; Tue, 04 May 2010 09:51:02 -0700 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/141.144.160.104) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Tue, 04 May 2010 09:51:01 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: Thread-Index: AcrrouAS6Lya+b9iSEOswePdAnH2/QAA2dXQ X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5579 X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-Source-IP: acsinet15.oracle.com [141.146.126.227] X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090204.4BE050BD.011D:SCFMA922111,ss=1,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:73317 Archived-At: > > It is bound to , M-DEL. > > (backward-kill-word ARG) 1. Remember too that you can use `../ TAB' to move up the directory hierarchy during file-name completion. 2. In Icicles, `C-backspace' also moves up the hierarchy. > dired+.el would probably work for me but that seems like overkill. Overkill, underkill, Goldilocks-kill. Different Goldilocks have different needs. ;-)