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From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Directory tree tools
Message-ID: <1990Feb1.225322.13198@iwarp.intel.com>
Date: 1 Feb 90 22:53:22 GMT
References: <8722@unix.SRI.COM>
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In-Reply-To: ric@ace.sri.com (Richard Steinberger)

In article <8722@unix.SRI.COM>, ric@ace (Richard Steinberger) writes:
| 
|     I received such helpful responses to my query about command line
| editing tools that I thought I would ask for suggestions about another
| possible Unix tool.  At the moment the only utility I have to sketch out a
| directory tree is the following:
[deleted]
|     While this works well enough, i.e., it does draw a picture of a a
| directory tree, what would be really nice is a tool that draws the tree,
| then highlights the current directory (inverse video perhaps), and allows
| the user to navigate to a new directory, rename a directory, move a
| directory to a new node on the tree, or delete a directory, using arrow keys
| and other keys as appropriate.  Also useful would be the ability to get a
| brief listing of the files in the current directory (wherever the user has
| traveled to using arrow keys) without leaving the utility.

Most Emacs-es have a directory editor built in.  I have a nifty one
that I've been using called "monkey" for GNU emacs that does most of
what you asked for (which I can send you, if you mail me).

Just another Unix hacker,
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