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Dired Extra Version 2

For The GNU Emacs 19

Directory Editor

Manual Revision: 2.52 1994/08/09 16:51:31

Lawrence R. Dodd `dodd@roebling.poly.edu`

(Based on ``dired.texi'` by Sebastian Kremer <sk@thp.uni-koeln.de>) Copyright (C) 1993, 1994 Free Software Foundation

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Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a permission notice identical to this one.

Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this manual into another language, under the above conditions for modified versions, except that this permission notice may be stated in a translation approved by the Free Software Foundation.

The file used to create this is called ``dired-x.texi'`, but the original work that was altered to make that file was called ``dired.texi'` written by Sebastian Kremer.

# Introduction

This documents the extra features for Dired Mode for GNU Emacs 19. It is derived from version 1.191 of Sebastian Kremer's ``dired-x.el'` and is GNU Emacs v19 compatible.

In adopting this ``dired-x.el'` to GNU Emacs v19 some material that has been incorporated into ``dired.el'` and ``dired-aux.el'` of the GNU Emacs 19 distribution has been removed and some material was modified for agreement with the functions in ``dired.el'` and ``dired-aux.el'`. For example, the code using `gmhist` history functions was replaced with code using the mini-buffer history now built into GNU Emacs 19. Finally, a few other features have been added and a few more functions have been bound to keys.

Please note that ``dired-x.el'` and this texinfo file ``dired-x.texi'` are bundled with GNU Emacs versions 19.23 and later.

## Features

Some features provided by Dired Extra

1. Omitting of uninteresting files from dired listing.
   See section Omitting Files in Dired
2. Local variables for dired directories.
   See section Local Variables for Dired Directories
3. Guessing shell commands in dired buffers.
   See section Shell Command Guessing
4. Running dired command in non-dired buffers.
   See section Virtual Dired
5. Finding a file mentioned in a buffer
   See section Find File At Point
6. Commands using file marking.
   See section Advanced Mark Commands

``dired-x.el'` binds some functions to keys in Dired Mode (See section Key Index) and also binds `C-x C-j` and `C-x 4 C-j` globally to `dired-jump` (See section Miscellaneous Commands). It may also bind `C-x C-f` and `C-x 4 C-f` to `dired-x-find-file` and `dired-x-find-file-other-window`, respectively (See section Find File At Point).

## Technical Details

When loaded this code redefines the following functions of GNU Emacs from ``dired.el'`

- `dired-clean-up-after-deletion`
- `dired-find-buffer-nocreate`
- `dired-initial-position`
- `dired-up-directory`

and the following functions from ``dired-aux.el'`

- `dired-add-entry`
- `dired-read-shell-command`

One drawback is that ``dired-x.el'` will load ``dired-aux.el'` as soon as dired is loaded. Thus, the advantage of separating out non-essential dired stuff into ``dired-aux.el'` and only loading when necessary will be lost when ``dired-x.el'` is used.

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