On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 13:46, Bengt Larsson <lists.cygw...@bengtl.net> wrote: > Bengt Larsson wrote: >>Kenneth Wolcott wrote: >>>>>sigh, no ^X d (aka dired mode) by default ! >>>> >>>> True. I never use it. I kind of philosophically disagree with it. >>> >>> Strange, as "dired" is one of the most important pieces of emacs and >>>when one says "emacs" and then says "but this version doesn't have >>>'dired'", the emacs person will go, "What?!" It's kInd of like having >>>a kitchen sink with no running water :-) >> >>Mmm. Could you tell me which commands you use, and what they do, in >>order of decreasing priority? >> >>I'm thinking one could do a simple dired, generating the list >>internally. Delete, Visit file, Rename, how does that sound? > > I have implemented dired. > > But I suppose this is getting off topic. There is some support for > creating a mailing list at my domain so I'll see if I can do that. If I > do, I'll announce it here. I'll keep updating the website. there will be > a Changelog.
What most people who used Emacs would use Dired for is to avoid having to go to a terminal shell to do: ls ls -l ls -lrt ls -d rm <some_file> rm <glob_expression> mv <file1> <file2> chmod chown many, many other things as well Ken Wolcott -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
