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Re: Binding dired-up-directory to "b" by default
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Juri Linkov |
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Re: Binding dired-up-directory to "b" by default |
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Tue, 14 Jan 2025 09:34:35 +0200 |
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> 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.