Mercurial > emacs
changeset 37484:0e8d5a17a47f
Fix command names dired-do-flagged-delete,
dired-do-query-replace-regexp, dired-unmark-all-marks.
Fix xrefs to Dired-X and Misc File Ops.
Correct the uuencode shell command example to handle spaces.
Explain prefix args to k and l better,
especially negative args.
author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
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date | Thu, 26 Apr 2001 00:29:21 +0000 |
parents | fe7da308892e |
children | 12064cf8f86f |
files | man/dired.texi |
diffstat | 1 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/man/dired.texi Thu Apr 26 00:26:05 2001 +0000 +++ b/man/dired.texi Thu Apr 26 00:29:21 2001 +0000 @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ to operate on the files listed. The Dired-X package provides various extra features for Dired mode. -@xref{,Dired-X,,dired-x, Dired Extra Version 2 User's Manual}. +@xref{Dired-X,,,dired-x, Dired Extra Version 2 User's Manual}. @menu * Enter: Dired Enter. How to invoke Dired. @@ -121,16 +121,17 @@ @kindex DEL @r{(Dired)} The files are flagged for deletion rather than deleted immediately to reduce the danger of deleting a file accidentally. Until you direct -Dired to expunge the flagged files, you can remove deletion flags using +Dired to delete the flagged files, you can remove deletion flags using the commands @kbd{u} and @key{DEL}. @kbd{u} (@code{dired-unmark}) works just like @kbd{d}, but removes flags rather than making flags. @key{DEL} (@code{dired-unmark-backward}) moves upward, removing flags; it is like @kbd{u} with argument @minus{}1. @kindex x @r{(Dired)} -@findex dired-expunge +@findex dired-do-flagged-delete @cindex expunging (Dired) - To delete the flagged files, type @kbd{x} (@code{dired-expunge}). + To delete the flagged files, type @kbd{x} (@code{dired-do-flagged-delete}). +(This is also known as @dfn{expunging}.) This command first displays a list of all the file names flagged for deletion, and requests confirmation with @kbd{yes}. If you confirm, Dired deletes the flagged files, then deletes their lines from the text @@ -180,8 +181,8 @@ @kbd{&} (@code{dired-flag-garbage-files}) flags files whose names match the regular expression specified by the variable @code{dired-garbage-files-regexp}. By default, this matches certain -files produced by @TeX{}, and the @samp{.orig} and @samp{.rej} files -produced by @code{patch}. +files produced by @TeX{}, @samp{.bak} files, and the @samp{.orig} and +@samp{.rej} files produced by @code{patch}. @kindex # @r{(Dired)} @kindex ~ @r{(Dired)} @@ -273,17 +274,17 @@ Viewing a file is like visiting it, but is slanted toward moving around in the file conveniently and does not allow changing the file. -@xref{Misc File Ops,View File}. +@xref{Misc File Ops,View File, Miscellaneous File Operations}. @end table @node Marks vs Flags @section Dired Marks vs. Flags @cindex marking many files (in Dired) - Instead of flagging a file with @samp{D}, you can @dfn{mark} the file -with some other character (usually @samp{*}). Most Dired commands to -operate on files, aside from ``expunge'' (@kbd{x}), look for files -marked with @samp{*}. + Instead of flagging a file with @samp{D}, you can @dfn{mark} the +file with some other character (usually @samp{*}). Most Dired +commands to operate on files use the files marked with @samp{*}, the +exception being @kbd{x} which deletes the flagged files. Here are some commands for marking with @samp{*}, or for unmarking or operating on marks. (@xref{Dired Deletion}, for commands to flag and @@ -346,9 +347,9 @@ @item * ! @kindex * ! @r{(Dired)} -@findex dired-unmark-all-files-no-query +@findex dired-unmark-all-marks Remove all marks from all the files in this Dired buffer -(@code{dired-unmark-all-files-no-query}). +(@code{dired-unmark-all-marks}). @item * ? @var{markchar} @kindex * ? @r{(Dired)} @@ -493,7 +494,7 @@ Delete the specified files (@code{dired-do-delete}). Like the other commands in this section, this command operates on the @emph{marked} files, or the next @var{n} files. By contrast, @kbd{x} -(@code{dired-expunge}) deletes all @dfn{flagged} files. +(@code{dired-do-flagged-delete}) deletes all @dfn{flagged} files. @findex dired-do-rename @kindex R @r{(Dired)} @@ -594,12 +595,12 @@ the next match. @xref{Tags Search}. @kindex Q @r{(Dired)} -@findex dired-do-query-replace +@findex dired-do-query-replace-regexp @cindex search and replace in multiple files (in Dired) -@item Q @var{from} @key{RET} @var{to} @key{RET} +@item Q @var{regexp} @key{RET} @var{to} @key{RET} Perform @code{query-replace-regexp} on each of the specified files, -replacing matches for @var{from} (a regular expression) with the string -@var{to} (@code{dired-do-query-replace}). +replacing matches for @var{regexp} with the string +@var{to} (@code{dired-do-query-replace-regexp}). This command is a variant of @code{tags-query-replace}. If you exit the query replace loop, you can use @kbd{M-,} to resume the scan and replace @@ -659,7 +660,7 @@ uuencode each file: @example -for file in *; do uuencode $file $file >$file.uu; done +for file in *; do uuencode "$file" "$file" >"$file".uu; done @end example The working directory for the shell command is the top-level directory @@ -817,7 +818,8 @@ @section Moving Over Subdirectories When a Dired buffer lists subdirectories, you can use the page motion -commands @kbd{C-x [} and @kbd{C-x ]} to move by entire directories. +commands @kbd{C-x [} and @kbd{C-x ]} to move by entire directories +(@pxref{Pages}). @cindex header line (Dired) @cindex directory header lines @@ -936,20 +938,22 @@ @kindex l @r{(Dired)} @findex dired-do-redisplay To update only some of the files, type @kbd{l} -(@code{dired-do-redisplay}). This command applies to the next @var{n} -files, or to the marked files if any, or to the current file. Updating -them means reading their current status from the file system and -changing the buffer to reflect it properly. +(@code{dired-do-redisplay}). Like the Dired file-operating commands, +this command operates on the next @var{n} files (or previous +@minus{}@var{n} files), or on the marked files if any, or on the +current file. Updating the files means reading their current status, +then updating their lines in the buffer to indicate that status. If you use @kbd{l} on a subdirectory header line, it updates the contents of the corresponding subdirectory. @kindex k @r{(Dired)} @findex dired-do-kill-lines - To delete the specified @emph{file lines}---not the files, just the -lines---type @kbd{k} (@code{dired-do-kill-lines}). With a numeric -argument @var{n}, this command applies to the next @var{n} files; -otherwise, it applies to the marked files. + To delete the specified @emph{file lines} from the buffer---not +delete the files---type @kbd{k} (@code{dired-do-kill-lines}). Like +the file-operating commands, this command operates on the next @var{n} +files, or on the marked files if any; but it does not operate on the +current file as a last resort. If you kill the line for a file that is a directory, the directory's contents are also deleted from the buffer. Typing @kbd{C-u k} on the @@ -958,7 +962,7 @@ The @kbd{g} command brings back any individual lines that you have killed in this way, but not subdirectories---you must use @kbd{i} to -reinsert each subdirectory. +reinsert a subdirectory. @cindex Dired sorting @cindex sorting Dired buffer