Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!bbn!ulowell!masscomp!garyo From: garyo@masscomp.UUCP (Gary Oberbrunner) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs Subject: Re: new monkey (dired replacement) Message-ID: <458@masscomp.UUCP> Date: 27 Jan 89 21:29:54 GMT References: <3076@xyzzy.UUCP> Reply-To: garyo@masscomp.UUCP (Gary Oberbrunner) Organization: MASSCOMP - Westford, Ma Lines: 31 In article <3076@xyzzy.UUCP> biesack@dg-rtp.UUCP () writes: : :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. : :David J. Biesack Data General :{seismo, ...}!mcnc!rti!dg-rtp!biesack Research Triangle Park, NC :biesack@dg-rtp.dg.com (919) 248-5989 I have a program called "colm" that multi-columnates data and is perfect for this kind of application. It sorts each column down, which ls -C does fine if you give it a directory, but it doesn't do if you pass it a list of files. Colm also knows how to do variable-width columns, to fit the most filenames in the fewest lines. And it can take an output width spec, for those of you using gnu on X. Colm was posted to comp.sources.unix (I think) about a month ago, and I have some bug fixes (like it didn't work on SysV because I stupidly depended on the return value from printf()) and also some enhancements (like tab expansion). These fixes will be posted to comp.sources as soon as I can get them packaged up. -- Remember, Truth is not beauty; (617)692-6200x2445 Information is not knowledge; Beauty is not love; Gary Oberbrunner Knowledge is not wisdom; Love is not music; ...!masscomp!garyo Wisdom is not truth; Music is the best. - FZ ....garyo@masscomp