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- From: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
- Subject: Re: Dired & Ange-Ftp
- Sender: network-news@cs.ruu.nl
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.091913.23760@cs.ruu.nl>
- In-Reply-To: scullyl@prism.cs.orst.edu (Lyle Scully)
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 09:19:13 GMT
- Distribution: gnu.emacs.help
- Reply-To: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
- References: <SCULLYL.92Sep13003720@prism.cs.orst.edu>
- Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
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- >>>>> scullyl@prism.cs.orst.edu (Lyle Scully) (LS) writes:
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- LS> I have been using the dired & and Ange-ftp combination for a while now
- LS> and I had a question. Is there a way to make a file that you ftp from
- LS> say /pub/msdos/file.idx automatically go into a default directory in
- LS> your account instead of having to backspace over all of the host/path
- LS> stuff in the line? Seems like I read about something like another
- LS> window that you can have it open on whatever directory you are sitting
- LS> in currently or something but I can't find this again. Any ideas?
- LS> Thanks in advance.
-
- When I translate this to English :=), I think you mean the DWIM feature.
-
- (defvar dired-dwim-target nil
- "*If non-nil, dired tries to guess a default target directory:
- If there is a dired buffer displayed in the next window, use
- its current subdir, instead of the current subdir of this dired
- buffer.
-
- The target is used in the prompt for file copy, move etc.")
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