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Re: Mg3a - a version of Mg2a developed on Cygwin


On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 13:46, Bengt Larsson <lists.cygwin2@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

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