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Virtual Dired directories
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Evans Winner |
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Virtual Dired directories |
Date: |
Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:15:03 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
A nice feature in Dired, if it doesn't already exist, might
be the ability to create virtual dired directories --
something like symlinks, but just in Emacs. So instead of
creating a real directory and cluttering up your file
system, you just have this virtual directory where you can
act on a list of files scattered around the system as if
they were all in one place.
For example, on a Windows machine at work I have
emacsclientw.exe set as my desktop shell. I have a
directory called ~/bin that has Windows ``shortcuts'' to all
the binary files I need on a regular basis and have
w32-integ-dired-explorer-open bound to C-c o in Dired. This
is a nice simple replacement for the Windows start menu for
me. But it might be easier if there were a way to simply
create a Dired ``virtual directory'' for that, instead of
having to create links to all those files and put them in a
real directory.
Anyway, a thought. I have only skimmed the Dired docs, so
maybe it's already possible to do this, or maybe it doesn't
fit well with how Dired does things. I dunno.
- Virtual Dired directories,
Evans Winner <=