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RE: Emacs Explorer?
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Drew Adams |
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RE: Emacs Explorer? |
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Wed, 14 Apr 2004 16:56:43 -0700 |
Thanks for the info, Jason! I wasn't aware of dired-dd.
I just downloaded it and checked it out.
FYI - It does a lot more than the minor tweaks I mentioned (in particular,
it does drag-&-drop). (It also does less than some of my code; it's
~complementary, in fact.)
I can't say that I would propose the dired-dd user interface as a model for
an Emacs Explorer (or its code as a model of elisp programming!), but it's
good to see a drag-&-drop prototype.
I realize that you didn't propose dired-dd as a model. Do you actually use
it?
I'd like to see something in Dired as user-friendly and useful as what
Windows Explorer offers. Things like drag-&-drop can be quite error prone,
so the user interface needs to be very good (good feedback etc.).
Code like dired-dd (and my dired+) provides only baby steps toward the
functionality of WE - Emacs dev could do a lot better. WE is a model to copy
or learn from; dired-dd is probably not.
Thanks,
Drew
P.S. Hope you don't mind my cc'ing the list.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Rumney [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 12:32 PM
To: Drew Adams
Subject: Re: Emacs Explorer?
"Drew Adams" <address@hidden> writes:
> FYI - I've added a couple of the really *minor* Windows-Explorer features
to
> my own dired:
>
> . To select multiple files, you can click MB1 then Shift-click MB1, or
just
> MB1-drag a region.
> . Context-dependent MB3 popup menu (operates on all files in the region
or
> the single pointed file).
Have you seen dired-dd? I think I found it on gnu.emacs.sources about
a year ago. It probably has what you've added and more.
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