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Automatically preview file at point in Emacs Dired.
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dired-*-line shortcuts #1

Closed pprevos closed 1 year ago

pprevos commented 1 year ago

Hi Prot,

Interesting new package that is very useful for managing my collections of photographs.

I use arrow keys to navigate Dired buffers. You remap the dired-*-line functions to their dired-preview-* equivalents. But somehow, it only remaps the p and n keys, not the arrow or space keys that also map to the dried function.

Also, should PDFs be included as they are natively read by Emacs?

P:)

protesilaos commented 1 year ago

From: Peter Prevos @.***> Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2023 15:45:54 -0700

Hi Prot,

Hello Peter,

Interesting new package that is very useful for managing my collections of photographs.

Yes, this is my use-case as well!

I use arrow keys to navigate Dired buffers. You remap the dired-*-line functions to their dired-preview-* equivalents. But somehow, it only remaps the p and n keys, not the arrow or space keys that also map to the dried function.

I was surprised when I noticed this. I expected the remapping to apply to all key bindings. I don't know why it only picked one, let alone why it picked that one.

At any rate, we are discussing this on the mailing list, with Christian Tietze suggesting an alternative approach that may work more reliably: https://lists.sr.ht/~protesilaos/general-issues/%3Cm1zg4noej2.fsf%40christiantietze.de%3E.

Also, should PDFs be included as they are natively read by Emacs?

We can change the 'dired-preview-ignored-extensions-regexp' user option. I don't have a strong opinion about it. We already have previewing with a delay, plus there is the max size limit. Those help us avoid cases where Emacs will take a long time to display the file.

All the best, Prot

-- Protesilaos Stavrou https://protesilaos.com

pprevos commented 1 year ago

I'll follow the mailing list. Issue closed.