Re: dired target directory

[Tom Capey]

* Guido Van Hoecke <Guido@VanHoecke.org> writes:

> Way back, before dired-x, I used dired-aux. One very usefull feature
> was to use split screen (e.g. C-x 2), showing a different directory in
> each window.

> Dired-aux provided a setting whereby the inactive directory would be
> the default target for copy, move, symlink and other directory entry
> creating actions.

> I have vainly looked for such a feature in dired-x. Does anybody have
> an elisp snippet that could be used with the current emacs to provide
> this functionality?

,----
| `dired-dwim-target'
| 
| *If non-nil, dired tries to guess a default target directory.
| This means: if there is a dired buffer displayed in the next window,
| use its current subdir, instead of the current subdir of this dired buffer.
| 
| The target is used in the prompt for file copy, rename etc.
`----



/Tom
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