Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!bu-cs!spdcc!m2c!bergman From: bergman@m2c.m2c.org (Michael Bergman) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs Subject: small problem in dired mode Message-ID: Date: 4 May 89 19:58:50 GMT Sender: news@m2c.ORG Distribution: gnu Organization: Massachusetts Microelectronics Center, Westborough, MA Lines: 36 When I try to copy a file in dired mode, frequently I get a "beep" and the file doesn't get copied--no error message in the command line, and no reason for the permissions to be wrong. This doesn't happen if I am copying upward or in the same directory, but happens (apparently) every time I try to copy to an unrelated directory. It doesn't seem to matter if I specify the file name or just the directory name, it fails either way. Unrelated: if I have a buffer that has a name, and I write it out using the default path, it works fine even though I haven't specified the filename. If I specify a new path, but not the filename, rather than using the buffer name I get an error. Is there a hook or variable I can change? Finally: I have been doing a lot of work that involves copying files from one tree to the same location in a similar tree, i.e. /unused/foo/faa/myfile to /used/foo/faa/myfile. I frequently have to examine files in each dir first to decide whether to copy or modify the target files. What works best for this is a split window with dired in each window, one on each directory. The problem is that when traversing the tree, frequently dired gets confused (or rather: I do) and I wind up with each window pointing to the same file...is there a way to maintain separate buffer lists for each window, so that one never ^X^B's to a buffer that hasn't been shown in the window one is in? Has anyone worked on something like this? Alternatively, is there a way to tell gnuemacs to show the full path in the mode line instead of just the buffer name, or to make the buffer name include the full path? I am running 18.51.1 under Ultrix 2.2. Thank you, -- --mike bergman bergman@m2c.org