From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joe Bush Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: dired "midnight commander" view? Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 04:55:13 GMT Organization: RoadRunner - West Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1107234130 26942 80.91.229.2 (1 Feb 2005 05:02:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 05:02:10 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 01 06:02:10 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CvqAw-00063y-4U for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Feb 2005 06:02:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CvqNn-0002XH-4u for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Feb 2005 00:15:23 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!elnk-pas-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!cyclone.socal.rr.com!cyclone2.kc.rr.com!news2.kc.rr.com!twister.socal.rr.com.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 29 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.91.10.4 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com Original-X-Trace: twister.socal.rr.com 1107233713 66.91.10.4 (Mon, 31 Jan 2005 20:55:13 PST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 20:55:13 PST Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:128290 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:23798 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:23798 Joakim Verona writes: Try ec.el, it will do what you want. Google for 'evening commander'. > Hello, > > I'm looking for something like a "midnight commander" like view for > dired, if something like that exists. > > I find it can be convenient for file-sorting tasks. > > I made a small kbd macro that did the most important part, move files > from the "left" frame to the "right". > > There are other things that usually are convenient in this kind of > file manager, and that could be emulated in emacs, switching left and > right frame, keeping the buffer layout and things like that. > > There are other things that are very convenient in dired, like wdired, > so I dont want a complete replacement, just some convenient add-ons. > > > > -- > Joakim Verona > www.verona.se