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From: jat@hpsemc.UUCP (Joe Talmadge)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Monkey mode -- what is it?
Message-ID: <3720009@hpsemc.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 6-Nov-87 18:32:16 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  6 18:32:16 1987
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Roy Smith writes:
>	I've been watching with only half an ear this monkey-mode stuff, so
>maybe I just never noticed when it was explained, but just what *is* monkey
>mode?

monkey mode is a replacement for dired.  Basically, monkey mode is the
same as dired, with a few key differences.

If you're in dired mode, and you move up or down a level, gnuemacs
pops a new buffer.  In monkey mode, however, you can expand and
collapse the contents of a sub-directory in-place (in-situ).  This
makes moving through the directory hierarchy easier; you retain your
enclosing context, and you can compare or correlate two sibling
directories.  

Other differences (derived from the one above):
dired shows you a full line for each file name, which looks like the
output of an ll command.  monkey shows you only
the file name itself, and 'ls -F'-type flags.

Single character commands in monkey for "show me the ll output of this
file" and "show me the ll output of all the marked files".

Credit where credit is due section:  
Jack Repenning taught me everything I know about monkey.  In
fact, most of this letter is plagiarized from a letter he sent me a
few weeks ago.



Joe Talmadge       hplabs!hpsemc!jat