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> - In Dired, the 'Z' command on a directory name compresses all of its files. Dired is so handy, but it does so much. Unless I were to use this feature often
by merlincorey 8y ago
> - In Dired, the 'Z' command on a directory name compresses all of its files.
Dired is so handy, but it does so much. Unless I were to use this feature often enough I fear I would never remember it was there and just break out to a terminal and `tar -zcf` manually.
I feel like something already exists for this, but it would be cool if there was a "Random Mode Tip of The Day" that one could invoke for discovery and practice of things like this.
- laughingman2 8y agoNice feature for emacs home screen or scratch buffer to display a tip of the day ..
- egh 8y agohttps://github.com/egh/emacs-totd https://github.com/egh/emacs-totd or https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TipOfTheDay https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TipOfTheDay Could be modified to show, e.g. dired commands as well.
- laughingman2 8y agolol! Not at all surprised, if you can think of it, there is most probably an emacs plugin for it.
- RHSeeger 8y agohttps://xkcd.com/378/ https://xkcd.com/378/
- RHSeeger 8y agoGiven the downvote, I guess my intention wasn't clear. I was agreeing that > if you can think of it, there is most probably an emacs plugin for it. Anything Ive looked for has been out there, excepting some truly specialized things (fontification for custom file formats)
- Myrmornis 8y agoI was about to write: "I agree, I think this is silly: one should just use a terminal for stuff like that". However, Windows.
- nine_k 8y agoTyping `?` helps. Anyway, M-x describe-mode (normally M-x desc-mo <Tab> is enough) will print a complete, if intimidatingly long, description of key bindings for the current buffer.
- gkya 8y agoUse menus. The menus are really handy for discovery. Many I see disable them (the menu-bar-mode), but it doesn't take up more than about a line, and I go to it to discover what interesting bits a mode has or to find some functionality I use less often and forgot the keybinding to it. I do also use which-key-mode, and there is always M-x apropos & the completion, but menu is a nice companion to these stuff.
- a_e_k 8y agoI'm one who turns them off. When disabled, you can just hit C-down-mouse-3 (i.e., ctrl-right click) anywhere in a buffer to get the global menu in the form of a pop-up. That works well enough for me for the rare occasions when I want to go spelunking through the menu (mostly to find some obscure Calc op).
- gkya 8y agoTIL, thanks!
- _emacsomancer_ 8y agoAnd, I think, F10.
- spopejoy 8y agoM-~ (meta-tilde)! Accidentally discovered this the other day.