Re: ! in dired mode

[Frederik Fouvry]

,-- On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 12:00:50 -0600 (CST), Luc Teirlinck wrote:
| 
| Frederic Fouvry wrote:
| 
|    In recent Emacs versions (see below for the number), it does not seem
|    to be possible anymore to use ! to operate on `.' or `..'.  While I
|    can live with the limitation on `..', it is annoying for `.', for
|    instance when I just want to do a find on the current directory in
|    Dired, I cannot do this anymore, and have to open the parent directory
|    and look for the wanted directory, or to type M-x find-dired.  Each of
|    these contain more key strokes than just ! find.
| 
| ^!find will usually be less keystrokes than going to the line `.' is
| on ands then !find.  Certainly at most one more.  (Or two if you count
| RET to go back.)  After ^, you do not need to look for the wanted
| directory, ^ carries you there automatically.

Ah, I didnt't know about that key.  In that case, you are right,
of course.

Thanks!

Frederik