dired commands/vars i can't find

dired commands/vars i can't find

[Samuel Wales]

i can't seem to find a few things i want in dired that probably exist.


1.  suppose you run dired fro a file.  i beierve there is a setting
that will put point on that file's line insted of at top.  whatis it?

2.  also, i i clutter buffer space with dired dirs.  i thini you are
supposed to use a instead of ret when you vist from dired.
is there a dired-up-directory equivalent of this?  that is, i want a
version of dired-up-directory that reuse the current buffer.

thank you.  please to: me if you can.  or perhaps cc: will work as
well, idk.  [of course it is ok to include the mailing list.]

Re: dired commands/vars i can't find

[Samuel Wales]

well it seems i found a function that does 2.  i wrote it long ago.
idk if it works.  or in all cases, but i have it.

(defun alpha-dired-up-alternate ()
  (interactive)
  (let* ((dir (dired-current-directory))
	 (up (file-name-directory (directory-file-name dir))))
    (find-alternate-file up)))

and i had it bound, even.  up to ' and alternate to shift-'.

so probably all i need is 1.

On 1/10/23, Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> wrote:
> i can't seem to find a few things i want in dired that probably exist.
>
>
> 1.  suppose you run dired fro a file.  i beierve there is a setting
> that will put point on that file's line insted of at top.  whatis it?
>
> 2.  also, i i clutter buffer space with dired dirs.  i thini you are
> supposed to use a instead of ret when you vist from dired.
> is there a dired-up-directory equivalent of this?  that is, i want a
> version of dired-up-directory that reuse the current buffer.
>
> thank you.  please to: me if you can.  or perhaps cc: will work as
> well, idk.  [of course it is ok to include the mailing list.]
>


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Re: dired commands/vars i can't find

[Jean Louis]

On January 11, 2023 8:58:11 AM GMT+03:00, Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> wrote:

>1.  suppose you run dired fro a file.  i beierve there is a setting
>that will put point on that file's line insted of at top.  whatis it?

(defun rcd-dired-for-file ()
  (interactive)
  (let ((file (or (buffer-file-name)
                  default-directory)))
    (dired-jump nil file)))





Jean

Re: dired commands/vars i can't find

[Yuri Khan]

On Wed, 11 Jan 2023 at 14:59, Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> wrote:

> >1.  suppose you run dired fro a file.  i beierve there is a setting
> >that will put point on that file's line insted of at top.  whatis it?
>
> (defun rcd-dired-for-file ()
>   (interactive)
>   (let ((file (or (buffer-file-name)
>                   default-directory)))
>     (dired-jump nil file)))

I’m just using dired-jump. Most of the time, it does the right thing.

Re: dired commands/vars i can't find

[H. Dieter Wilhelm]

Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, 11 Jan 2023 at 14:59, Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> wrote:

> I’m just using dired-jump. Most of the time, it does the right thing.

Yes, C-x C-j.  Formerly it was "hidden" in dired-x but since some recent
Emacs versions it's thankfully in dired.el. :-)


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Re: dired commands/vars i can't find

[Jean Louis]

* Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> [2023-01-11 11:16]:
> On Wed, 11 Jan 2023 at 14:59, Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> wrote:
> 
> > >1.  suppose you run dired fro a file.  i beierve there is a setting
> > >that will put point on that file's line insted of at top.  whatis it?
> >
> > (defun rcd-dired-for-file ()
> >   (interactive)
> >   (let ((file (or (buffer-file-name)
> >                   default-directory)))
> >     (dired-jump nil file)))
> 
> I’m just using dired-jump. Most of the time, it does the right
> thing.

That is right, I did not know.

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Re: dired commands/vars i can't find

[Filipp Gunbin]

Hi,

On 10/01/2023 22:58 -0700, Samuel Wales wrote:

> 2.  also, i i clutter buffer space with dired dirs.  i thini you are
> supposed to use a instead of ret when you vist from dired.
> is there a dired-up-directory equivalent of this?  that is, i want a
> version of dired-up-directory that reuse the current buffer.

There's dired-kill-when-opening-new-dired-buffer, but it's wider than
you request.