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From: dmb@morgoth.UUCP (David M. Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: dired-mode-hook exists - here is the way to setq it
Message-ID: <431@morgoth.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 18-Aug-87 13:13:43 EDT
Article-I.D.: morgoth.431
Posted: Tue Aug 18 13:13:43 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 21-Aug-87 07:23:27 EDT
Organization: Goldberg-Zoino and Assoc., Newton, MA
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Keywords: dired hook keymap

Dave Jones wanted to know how to rebind keys in the dired-mode.  The
problem was that dired is autoloaded, so dired-mode-map is nil when
the .emacs file is eval'ed.

John Robinson told him to use dired-mode-hook, but misinformed him
that the hook does not exist, and therefore he had to redefine
dired-mode to call dired-mode-hook.

Dired-mode-hook exists.  It's right there in dired.el.  Also, I think
Dave needed to know how to setq a hook.  I have the following in my
.emacs because I often get dired-mode and buffer-menu-mode bindings
confused:

(setq dired-mode-hook
      (function
       (lambda nil
	 (define-key dired-mode-map "1" 'dired-find-file))))
(define-key Buffer-menu-mode-map "f" 'Buffer-menu-1-window)

Dave:  If you copy this style it will work.  Just don't ask me why, okay?


David Brown
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