From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: node Subdirectories in Dired in Emacs manual
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 11:17:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jeod9tsce4.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000001c87e6f$b6126e70$0600a8c0@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Tue\, 4 Mar 2008 19\:19\:23 -0800")
"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
>> > This text in the node is misleading or unintelligible:
>> >
>> > If the subdirectory's contents are already present in the
>> > buffer, the `i' command just moves to it.
>> >
>> > I tried `i' everywhere in the buffer, and it did nothing of the
>> > kind...except if the cursor is over the subdir line of the parent
>> > directory. That needs to be said.
>>
>> That's exactly what the preceding paragraph says.
>
> Not at all. Hitting `i' *WHERE*
"on a line that describes a file which is a directory"
> just moves to *WHERE*?
"the subdirectory's contents"
Just as the paragraph says.
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-05 10:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-04 23:53 node Subdirectories in Dired in Emacs manual Drew Adams
2008-03-05 0:51 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-03-05 3:19 ` Drew Adams
2008-03-05 10:17 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2008-03-05 15:13 ` Drew Adams
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