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Re: dired target directory
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Tom Capey |
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Re: dired target directory |
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Fri, 24 Jun 2005 17:35:18 +0100 |
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* Guido Van Hoecke <Guido@VanHoecke.org> writes:
> Way back, before dired-x, I used dired-aux. One very usefull feature
> was to use split screen (e.g. C-x 2), showing a different directory in
> each window.
> Dired-aux provided a setting whereby the inactive directory would be
> the default target for copy, move, symlink and other directory entry
> creating actions.
> I have vainly looked for such a feature in dired-x. Does anybody have
> an elisp snippet that could be used with the current emacs to provide
> this functionality?
,----
| `dired-dwim-target'
|
| *If non-nil, dired tries to guess a default target directory.
| This means: 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, rename etc.
`----
/Tom
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