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- From: aho@thalamus.sans.kth.se (Anders Holst)
- Subject: Discussion about aho-dired.el and tree-dired-aho.el
- Message-ID: <AHO.92Dec17211715@thalamus.sans.kth.se>
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- Organization: /home/aho/.organization
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 20:17:15 GMT
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- Recently (or very long ago actually, 4-5 months perhaps) someone sent
- modifications to dired to this group, and someone else asked if the
- modifications were compatible with tree-dired. (Tree-dired is the
- version of dired to be used in Emacs 19, but which can be used already.)
-
- I have been trying tree-dired for a while now, and it really is a lot
- nicer to work with. It has nearly all the things that one wanted, but
- was missing in the normal dired. So one answer to the question about
- compatibility of the modifications, is that most of them are not
- needed in tree-dired, it already has everything that people earlier
- had to add themselves to normal dired.
-
- But there are a few things that could be added to tree-dired too
- (there always are I guess, however complete a package are). Remarkably
- enough, one thing that everyone seems to have added to their normal
- dired, but is not included in tree-dired, is to have the last
- directory copied/renamed/linked to as default the next time. Instead,
- if there is a dired-buffer in the next window, tree-dired defaults
- to the directory of that dired-buffer. This is actually a quite
- nice behavior too.
-
- Anyway, what I have done is to make some slight modifications of
- tree-dired.
- This includes combination of the above mentioned types of defaulting.
- If there is another dired-buffer in any other window this will be the
- default destination, otherwise the last used destination will be
- default (every dired-buffer has its own last used destination of
- course).
- Another thing in the modifications are sorting in in the right place of
- copied/renamed/linked files, currently only when the sort order is
- alphabetical (which is what I always use, and which was the easiest
- case to write).
- For more details, see the description in tree-dired-aho.el.
-
- I can not resist to send also my modifications of normal dired. (Most
- of you are surely tired of such modifications since everyone seems to
- have done the same changes and sent them to this group, but perhaps
- someone is quite new on this group and cannot easily get tree-dired
- yet...) Of course my additions are mainly as everybody else's: links,
- mkdir, printing, shell-commands and defaulting of directories in
- copying/renaming/linking. So there is not so much really remarkable.
- The most notable features are the same as in tree-dired-aho, i.e.
- sorting in of new files alphabetically (even in some other
- dired-buffer than the current), and a more emphasized tree-structure
- between different dired-buffers (see the description in aho-dired.el
- for more details).
-
- Enough talk (or far too much). The files tree-dired-aho.el and
- aho-dired.el will follow immediately after this article.
-
- Anders Holst (aho@sans.kth.se)
-