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As a follow-up to this conversation about #ded #console #rulers, Thomas Dickey had this to say (in response to an email I'd sent him):

It's a visual reminder of how far left/right I've scrolled, in either the directory listing, or in the built-in pager. If you're using the pager, the scrolling applies to that.

Neither of those wraps lines, and when I
began that (in 1987), had no other programs to do that sort of thing.

If I'm scrolling left/right, I want to know where I am. If I scroll too far the right, and the screen's blank, that helps :-)

I see it's in the initial version of dedview.c, in April 1992, which precedes any of the followup versions of #dired. In turn, that says it was split from ded.c, so... in that file I see a ruler (in showFILES), which is from November 1987. The 'Xbase' variable corresponds to left/right scrolling - but that's the initial version of ded.c (I don't recall if the intermediate version that I wrote beginning around December/January 1986 did that, but have a hunch that this was something that I did for the improved version, with the ring of active directories, etc).

I had modified the initial version seen here:

https://groups.google.com/g/net.sources/c/_lGkTpsqyPE/m/SwhkKsBuayIJ

to move its divider line up and down in late 1983, and incorporated a similar divider into the versions that I wrote from scratch. I don't recall if I added column numbers to my changes in the original dired, but may have, since it seems "obvious".

Thanks for that, Thomas!!

Emacs dired-mode as a file manager

https://lynn.sh/guix-emacs-file-manager.html

#HackerNews #Emacs #dired-mode #file #manager #EmacsTips #filemanagement #technews

@lf_araujo I did not understand how to use #TRAMP by reading the manual... I don't have any patience to read through... :blobfoxcrylaugh: So just search-engine with the phrase I wanted to do exactly... And I learned to use #sftp via #eshell (to upload my blog contents) and #dired via sftp connection (because I wanted to use easy way to delete the directory recursively because I fucked up and need the re-do :blobfoxgooglycry: ). I wander sftp connection using Dired is still the part of TRAMP... :blobfoxconfused: Welp I will know in the future... #Emacs

Ich hatte gehofft, mir könnte der in #emacs integrierte Dateimanager #dired genügen. Leider nicht, denn jeder Verzeichniswechsel öffnet einen neuen Buffer. Bedeutet, durch 10 Verzeichnisse navigiert und 9 weitere Buffer sind im Hintergrund aktiv. Keine Ahnung, wie man auf die Idee kommt, dies könnte eine gute sein. In meinen Augen Schwachsinn. Muss ich mich doch mit #nerdtree oder ähnliches befassen.

While testing a pull request for #dired-rsync I realised my #ert tests were broken and I never noticed because I can no longer see stuff in travis. It took a bit of trial and error but I've converted it all to #github actions now and got everything running again. I'll see if I can do the same for edit with #emacs tomorrow.

Marcin Borkowski: The benefits of everything being a buffer
https://mbork.pl/2023-01-30_The_benefits_of_everything_being_a_buffer

#Emacs #dired #spellchecking

Marcin Borkowski: The benefits of everything being a buffer
https://mbork.pl/2023-01-30_The_benefits_of_everything_being_a_buffer

#Emacs #dired #spellchecking

Marcin Borkowski: The benefits of everything being a buffer
https://mbork.pl/2023-01-30_The_benefits_of_everything_being_a_buffer

#Emacs #dired #spellchecking

Marcin Borkowski: The benefits of everything being a buffer
https://mbork.pl/2023-01-30_The_benefits_of_everything_being_a_buffer

#Emacs #dired #spellchecking

Marcin Borkowski: The benefits of everything being a buffer
https://mbork.pl/2023-01-30_The_benefits_of_everything_being_a_buffer

#Emacs #dired #spellchecking

It's really annoying that all Linux tools I'm currently using for managing compressed files do not support an option to automatically create a subdirectory named after the archive to decompress to ... 😒
#unzip #dired #unp