dired: how to open the containing directory, where a selected files is resides in

dired: how to open the containing directory, where a selected files is resides in

[oliver]

hi there

in dired buffers (particulaly when created by dired-find) i quite often want 
to open the directory where listed files reside in. eg. in a dired buffer 
the cursor is on a line like

  -rw-rw-rw-   1     6264 Aug 11 12:34 source/XPImageList/AlphaImage.pas

then i want to open the directory "XPImageList" in a seperate dired buffer. 
is there any dired command accomplishing this, or does anybody knows about a 
appropriate add-on?

thanks a lot, oliver

Re: dired: how to open the containing directory, where a selected files is resides in

[Frederik Fouvry]

,-- One day, you wrote:
| NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 03:34:56 +0000 (UTC)
| 
| hi there
| 
| in dired buffers (particulaly when created by dired-find) i quite often want 
| to open the directory where listed files reside in. eg. in a dired buffer 
| the cursor is on a line like
| 
|   -rw-rw-rw-   1     6264 Aug 11 12:34 source/XPImageList/AlphaImage.pas
| 
| then i want to open the directory "XPImageList" in a seperate dired buffer. 
| is there any dired command accomplishing this, or does anybody knows about a 
| appropriate add-on?

C-x 4 C-j (from dired-x)

Frederik Fouvry 

Re: dired: how to open the containing directory, where a selected files is resides in

[oliver]

"Frederik Fouvry" <fouvry@coli.uni-saarland.de> wrote in message 
news:gzacwv2mb0.fsf@cc.at.coli.uni-sb.de...
>
> ,-- One day, you wrote:
> | NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 03:34:56 +0000 (UTC)
> |
> | hi there
> |
> | in dired buffers (particulaly when created by dired-find) i quite often 
> want
> | to open the directory where listed files reside in. eg. in a dired 
> buffer
> | the cursor is on a line like
> |
> |   -rw-rw-rw-   1     6264 Aug 11 12:34 source/XPImageList/AlphaImage.pas
> |
> | then i want to open the directory "XPImageList" in a seperate dired 
> buffer.
> | is there any dired command accomplishing this, or does anybody knows 
> about a
> | appropriate add-on?
>
> C-x 4 C-j (from dired-x)

thanks, but with dired-jump i go to the parent dir of the current dir. it 
does show the dir, which contains thye file on teh urerent line.

eg. if the find buffer has the curernt dir C:/dev/img-select and in there 
the cursor is on the line

-rw-rw-rw-   1     6264 Aug 11 12:34 source/XPImageList/AlphaImage.pas.

then dired-jump shows a dired buffer of the directory C:/dev. but obviously 
i want C:/dev/img-select/source/XPImageList.

cheers, leo

Re: dired: how to open the containing directory, where a selected files is resides in

[Kai Grossjohann]

"oliver" <oliver_baumann@nospam.justemail.net> writes:

> thanks, but with dired-jump i go to the parent dir of the current dir. it 
> does show the dir, which contains thye file on teh urerent line.

You could use RET to open the file, then M-x dired-jump RET to go to
the directory.  Problem: you have one useless buffer.

Kai

Re: dired: how to open the containing directory, where a selectedfiles is resides in

[oliver]

"Kai Grossjohann" <kai@emptydomain.de> wrote in message 
news:mailman.2272.1093180215.2011.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org...
> "oliver" <oliver_baumann@nospam.justemail.net> writes:
>
>> thanks, but with dired-jump i go to the parent dir of the current dir. it
>> does show the dir, which contains thye file on teh urerent line.
>
> You could use RET to open the file, then M-x dired-jump RET to go to
> the directory.  Problem: you have one useless buffer.

thanks for this. however this procedure describes exactly what i'm used to 
do. and it isn't particulaly elegant. additionally, if the case is big 
and/or binary these approach adds some significant overhead.

so, i'm still searching for a better solution.

cheers, oliver 

Re: dired: how to open the containing directory, where a selected files is resides in

[Kai Grossjohann]

"oliver" <oliver_baumann@nospam.justemail.net> writes:

> hi there
>
> in dired buffers (particulaly when created by dired-find) i quite often want 
> to open the directory where listed files reside in. eg. in a dired buffer 
> the cursor is on a line like
>
>   -rw-rw-rw-   1     6264 Aug 11 12:34 source/XPImageList/AlphaImage.pas
>
> then i want to open the directory "XPImageList" in a seperate dired buffer. 
> is there any dired command accomplishing this, or does anybody knows about a 
> appropriate add-on?

I know of nothing, but try hitting C-u w in the dired buffer, then C-x
C-f, then yank the filename copied with C-u w.

That would give you a starting point, though it is not the complete
solution.  Hm.  Lessee now...  Ah, perhaps this works:

(defun oliver ()
  (interactive)
  (find-file (file-name-directory (dired-copy-filename-as-kill t))))

Try to eval the above and then M-x oliver RET when you are on such a
file.  What happens?

Kai