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Re: Binding dired-up-directory to "b" by default


From: Juri Linkov
Subject: Re: Binding dired-up-directory to "b" by default
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 09:34:35 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/31.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)

> But from a movement perspective, dired-up-directory can be seen as a motion
> opposite of dired-find-file, which can go down a directory.
>
> In this line of thought, dired-find-file would be going 'f'orwards,
> while dired-up-directory would be going 'b'ackwards.

Indeed, Dired navigation is 2-dimensional: one between files,
and another in the directory tree down to the file leaf.
So for moving in the directory dimension I'm using M-left/M-right
like in browsers.  But 'b' makes sense too.



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