From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9_A=2E_Romero_L=2E?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: two dired questions Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 09:48:42 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1272988773 30956 80.91.229.12 (4 May 2010 15:59:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 15:59:33 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 04 17:59:32 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 1O9KWt-0000vz-PK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 17:59:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50222 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O9KWt-0006E4-Dd for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 11:59:27 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!c16g2000yqd.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.111.135.130 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1267724922 8095 127.0.0.1 (4 Mar 2010 17:48:42 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 17:48:42 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: c16g2000yqd.googlegroups.com; posting-host=62.111.135.130; posting-account=mkEKGAoAAACAV2vhv5r9WHXWqsdL_niD User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:177352 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:72904 Archived-At: On 4 Mar, 15:10, "B. T. Raven" wrote: > i. > Is there a function or, better yet, a keychord that backspaces (by > erasing) subdirectory components in the minibuffer. So, if the current > directory is deeply embedded in the file hierarchy, can I hit a key (...) > Is there a setting that overwrites the dired buffer with the new one > navigated to (or alternatively kills the one navigated from), so that > there is only one dired buffer at a time instead of a long trail of them? There is find-alternate-file (C-x C-v), then you can use the that appears by default in the minibuffer, and press C-backspace until you reach the directory you want to visit, then press Enter. For more sofisticated usecases you may want to have a look at: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Sunrise_Commander Cheers, -- Jos=E9 A. Romero L. escherdragon at gmail.com "We who cut mere stones must always be envisioning cathedrals." (Quarry worker's creed)