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Recently (or very long ago actually, 4-5 months perhaps) someone sent
modifications to dired to this group, and someone else asked if the
modifications were compatible with tree-dired. (Tree-dired is the
version of dired to be used in Emacs 19, but which can be used already.) 

I have been trying tree-dired for a while now, and it really is a lot
nicer to work with. It has nearly all the things that one wanted, but
was missing in the normal dired. So one answer to the question about
compatibility of the modifications, is that most of them are not
needed in tree-dired, it already has everything that people earlier
had to add themselves to normal dired.

But there are a few things that could be added to tree-dired too
(there always are I guess, however complete a package are). Remarkably
enough, one thing that everyone seems to have added to their normal
dired, but is not included in tree-dired, is to have the last
directory copied/renamed/linked to as default the next time. Instead,
if there is a dired-buffer in the next window, tree-dired defaults
to the directory of that dired-buffer. This is actually a quite
nice behavior too.

Anyway, what I have done is to make some slight modifications of
tree-dired.
This includes combination of the above mentioned types of defaulting.
If there is another dired-buffer in any other window this will be the
default destination, otherwise the last used destination will be
default (every dired-buffer has its  own last used destination of
course). 
Another thing in the modifications are sorting in in the right place of
copied/renamed/linked files, currently only when the sort order is
alphabetical (which is what I always use, and which was the easiest
case to write). 
For more details, see the description in tree-dired-aho.el.

I can not resist to send also my modifications of normal dired. (Most
of you are surely tired of such modifications since everyone seems to
have done the same changes and sent them to this group, but perhaps
someone is quite new on this group and cannot easily get tree-dired
yet...) Of course my additions are mainly as everybody else's: links,
mkdir, printing, shell-commands and defaulting of directories in
copying/renaming/linking. So there is not so much really remarkable.
The most notable features are the same as in tree-dired-aho, i.e.
sorting in of new files alphabetically (even in some other
dired-buffer than the current), and a more emphasized tree-structure
between different dired-buffers (see the description in aho-dired.el
for more details).

Enough talk (or far too much). The files tree-dired-aho.el and
aho-dired.el will follow immediately after this article.

  Anders Holst (aho@sans.kth.se)