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From: biesack@dg-rtp.dg.com (Dave Biesack)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs
Subject: Re: new monkey (dired replacement)
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Date: 26 Jan 89 13:18:01 GMT
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>  ; To use monkey instead of dired, put these lines in your .emacs:
>  ; (load "monkey.el")
>  ;
>  ;(global-set-key "\C-X\C-F" 'monkey-file)
>  ;(global-set-key "\C-X\C-V" 'monkey-alternate-file)
>  ;(global-set-key "\C-x4f" 'monkey-file-other-window)
>  ;(global-set-key "\C-x4\C-f" 'monkey-file-other-window)
>  ;(global-set-key "\M-g" 'monkey-current-directory)
>  

monkey-current-directory is not defined in monkey.el. Perhaps 
you mean 'monkey-directory instead.

I use monkey as a complete replacement for dired. Thus, i find
the following scheme an improvement over the above because 
I don't want to load monkey each time emacs starts up:
I prefer to autoload it. I have this in my .emacs:

  (autoload 'monkey-file-other-window "monkey" 
"Like find-file-other-window, but monkey with directories." t)
  (autoload 'monkey-directory "monkey"
"Make a buffer for directory and monkey around with it." t)
  (autoload 'monkey-directory-noselect "monkey" 
"Make a buffer for DIRECTORY, but don't select it.
The buffer is returned." t)
  (fset 'dired 'monkey-directory)
  (fset 'dired-noselect 'monkey-directory-noselect)
  (fset 'dired-other-window 'monkey-file-other-window)

One change I would like to see in monkey is when I run monkey-delete-marked.
If there are many files to delete, I would like them listed in the *Deletions*
buffer in multi-column format (as with ls -C), and also I would like some 
indication that there are files to be deleted which are not visible. Currently,
the tail end of the list appears and the mode-line says "Bottom", but I have
to scroll thru the list to verify it.

djb

David J. Biesack  			Data General
{seismo, ...}!mcnc!rti!dg-rtp!biesack	Research Triangle Park, NC
biesack@dg-rtp.dg.com			(919) 248-5989
David J. Biesack  			Data General
{seismo, ...}!mcnc!rti!dg-rtp!biesack	Research Triangle Park, NC
biesack@dg-rtp.dg.com			(919) 248-5989