Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tank!mimsy!brillig.umd.edu!mpf From: mpf@brillig.umd.edu (Martin Farach) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: dired Message-ID: Date: 26 Jan 89 01:23:54 GMT Sender: nobody@mimsy.UUCP Distribution: all Organization: University of Maryland Computer Science Lines: 28 I have a couple of questions about dired. Recently someone suggested a method for changing the name of backedup files. If you change the way files are backedup, is there a way to get dired to mark all backedup files the way it does now with ~? Also, if you set the dired-listing-switches to "-alF" then you get a * after executables, etc (yes, I know this is redundant since the information is already in there with a "-al" but it's alot easier to read a "*" than to read "wrx-rx-rx"). However, when you try to view or edit a file with a * you get a new file because it will try to load the file "file*" rather than "file". Is there an easy way to strip of the trailing characters from a -F listing? Thanks for your help, Martin Farach ******************************************************************************* * Martin Farach | * * University of Maryland | * * Department of Computer Science | * * College Park, Maryland 20742 | * * | * * also know as: | * * mpf@brillig.umd.edu | * *******************************************************************************