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dired-x: Find File At Point

 
 9 Find File At Point
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 ‘dired-x’ provides a method of visiting or editing a file mentioned in
 the buffer you are viewing (e.g., a mail buffer, a news article, a
 ‘README’ file, etc.) or to test if that file exists.  You can then
 modify this in the minibuffer after snatching the file name.
 
    When installed ‘dired-x’ will substitute ‘dired-x-find-file’ for
 ‘find-file’ (normally bound to ‘C-x C-f’) and
 ‘dired-x-find-file-other-window’ for ‘find-file-other-window’ (normally
 bound to ‘C-x 4 C-f’).
 
    In order to use this feature, you will need to set
 ‘dired-x-hands-off-my-keys’ to ‘nil’ inside ‘dired-load-hook’ (
 Optional Installation File At Point).
 
 ‘dired-x-find-file’
 
      ‘dired-x-find-file’ behaves exactly like ‘find-file’ (normally
      bound to ‘C-x C-f’) unless a prefix argument is passed to the
      function in which case it will use the file name at point as a
      guess for the file to visit.
 
      For example, if the buffer you were reading contained the words
 
           Available via anonymous ftp in
 
              /roebling.poly.edu:/pub/lisp/crypt++.el.gz
 
      then you could move your cursor to the line containing the ftp
      address and type ‘C-u C-x C-f’ (the ‘C-u’ is a universal argument).
      The minibuffer would read
 
           Find file: /roebling.poly.edu:/pub/lisp/crypt++.el.gz
 
      with the point after the last ‘/’.  If you hit <RET>, emacs will
      visit the file at that address.  This also works with files on your
      own computer.
 
 ‘dired-x-find-file-other-window’
 
      ‘dired-x-find-file-other-window’ behaves exactly like
      ‘find-file-other-window’ (normally bound to ‘C-x 4 C-f’) unless a
      prefix argument is used.  See ‘dired-x-find-file’ for more
      information.
 
 ‘dired-x-hands-off-my-keys’
      If set to ‘t’, then it means that ‘dired-x’ should _not_ bind
      ‘dired-x-find-file’ over ‘find-file’ on keyboard.  Similarly, it
      should not bind ‘dired-x-find-file-other-window’ over
      ‘find-file-other-window’.  If you change this variable after
      ‘dired-x.el’ is loaded then do ‘M-x dired-x-bind-find-file’.  The
      default value of this variable is ‘t’; by default, the binding is
      not done.  See Optional Installation File At Point.
 
 ‘dired-x-bind-find-file’
      A function, which can be called interactively or in your ‘~/.emacs’
      file, that uses the value of ‘dired-x-hands-off-my-keys’ to
      determine if ‘dired-x-find-file’ should be bound over ‘find-file’
      and ‘dired-x-find-file-other-window’ bound over
      ‘find-file-other-window’.  See Optional Installation File At
      Point.
 

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