Re: navigating in dired

[Kevin Rodgers]

Fabian Braennstroem wrote:
> Mario Domgo"rgen <kanaldrache@gmx.de> writes:
>>Fabian Braennstroem <f.braennstroem@gmx.de> writes:
>>>I start using 'dired' instead of the 'Midnight-Commander' and now, I
>>>am looking for some feature 'mc' has.  Right now, my biggest problem
>>>is to navigate in a directory with a lot of subdirectories and
>>>files. Let's say I want to got to the file 'main' in that
>>>directory. In 'mc' I could type 'm' and the cursor jumps to the first
>>>word beginning with 'm'. How can I jump to this file quickly? Maybe,
>>>anybody has a function for that!?
>>
>>You have the ful power of emacs in dired. Just use C-s or C-r ...
>
> But when I want to jump to /root I first find dozens of 'r' in the
> mode-column. That is not the nicest way.

I understand what you want, and I agree it'd be a nice feature.  In the
meantime, try this: * % r RET M-}

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Kevin Rodgers