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Re: what's the usefulness of dired-isearch-filenames ?
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Richard Riley |
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Re: what's the usefulness of dired-isearch-filenames ? |
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Mon, 10 Aug 2009 04:05:38 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) |
Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com> writes:
> in emacs 23's dired, there's
>
> dired-isearch-filenames (Alt+s f Ctrl+s)
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> and
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> dired-isearch-filenames-regexp (Alt+s f Ctrl+Alt+s)
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> what's the use for these?
>
> user can simply do isearch (Ctrl+s) as usual, no?
They can, but it might be a pain if the dired display contains words
in, say, the group or owner fields which match.
The command only searches filename text.
>
> Xah
> ∑ http://xahlee.org/
>
> ☄
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