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From: templon@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (jeffrey templon)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs,gnu.emacs
Subject: Re: DIRED for VMS, and some VMS Emacs questions
Keywords: VMS, DIRED, questions, answers
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Date: 28 Jul 89 05:23:21 GMT
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I must not have completely understood your posting: VMS Emacs (at least 18.52)
comes with dired for VMS.  It works fine for the most part; the only real gripe
I have with it is that it is a bit too brain-damaged to figure out the
difference between a regular file and a directory.  In dired, if you ask
to 'find' a directory using the 'f' command, it should run dired on the
subdirectory if the 'f' was typed on a line with a subdir entry.  VMS emacs
(GNU-VMS Emacs that is) just puts up a window with one entry, which is the name
of the subdirectory file you tried to find.  I would be quite interested in
a fix to this.

While we're on the subject of GNU emacs/VMS, I have a gripe:  i keep getting
the message (file has changed on disk - do you really want to edit...) when
I try to edit a file I have just saved!  The cycle is, edit the file; save it;
get out of the editor (another program reads the file at this point, but I
don't believe it modifies it!); then get back in to re-edit, and get the
message!  Has anybody else seen (or fixed) this?

					jeff