From: Marius Hofert <marius.hofert@math.ethz.ch>
To: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
Cc: Emacs help <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: dired-guess-shell-alist-user: How to match folders instead of file types?
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 22:34:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAM3-KjZjH=8am8i=GJLjUhq62YehXRB+a26_oWk-BbTvFtLkNw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r4fq56t1.fsf@rosalinde.fritz.box>
Works like a charm, thanks Steve!
On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 9:28 PM, Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Jun 2013 14:02:21 +0200 Marius Hofert <marius.hofert@math.ethz.ch> wrote:
>
>> I am not looking for a particular directory, I am rather looking for
>> the name of the directory the point is on (in dired-mode).
>>
>> If the point is on foo.tar.gz and I use M-!, I already get the
>> suggestion to 'untar' the file the point is on. I am looking for the
>> same feature, but in the case where the point is on a directory in
>> order to, say, to zip it. For this, I have to match directories but I
>> am not sure how this can be done.
>
> Try adding this to dired-guess-shell-alist-user as the first element in
> the list (replacing the shell command invocation with what you want):
>
> (".*" (when (file-directory-p (dired-get-filename))
> "(tar czf ? &>/dev/null &)"))
>
> Steve Berman
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-25 20:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-25 11:24 dired-guess-shell-alist-user: How to match folders instead of file types? Marius Hofert
2013-06-25 11:42 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-06-25 12:02 ` Marius Hofert
2013-06-25 14:00 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-06-25 19:28 ` Stephen Berman
2013-06-25 20:34 ` Marius Hofert [this message]
2013-06-27 11:22 ` Marius Hofert
2013-06-27 11:48 ` Stephen Berman
2013-06-27 12:25 ` Marius Hofert
2013-06-27 13:33 ` Stephen Berman
2013-06-27 14:28 ` Marius Hofert
2013-06-30 19:38 ` Marius Hofert
2013-06-25 14:35 ` Doug Lewan
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