* Hiding Subdirectories:: Making subdirectories visible or invisible.
* Updating: Dired Updating. Discarding lines for files of no interest.
* Find: Dired and Find. Using `find' to choose the files for Dired.
-* Misc: Misc Dired Commands. Various other features.
+* Misc: Misc Dired Features. Various other features.
@end menu
@node Dired Enter
program. @kbd{M-x locate-with-filter} is similar, but keeps only lines
matching a given regular expression.
-These buffers don't work entirely like ordinary Dired buffers. File
+ These buffers don't work entirely like ordinary Dired buffers. File
operations work, but do not always automatically update the buffer.
Reverting the buffer with @kbd{g} deletes all inserted subdirectories,
and erases all flags and marks.
-@node Misc Dired Commands
-@section Other Dired Commands
+@node Misc Dired Features
+@section Other Dired Features
-@table @kbd
-@item w
@cindex Adding to the kill ring in Dired.
@kindex w @r{(Dired)}
@findex dired-copy-filename-as-kill
-The @kbd{w} command (@code{dired-copy-filename-as-kill}) puts the
+ The @kbd{w} command (@code{dired-copy-filename-as-kill}) puts the
names of the marked (or next @var{n}) files into the kill ring, as if
-you had killed them with @kbd{C-w}. With a zero prefix argument
-@var{n}=0, use the absolute file name of each marked file. With just
-@kbd{C-u} as the prefix argument, use the relative file name of each
-marked file. As a special case, if no prefix argument is given and
-point is on a directory headerline, @kbd{w} gives you the name of that
-directory without looking for marked files.
-
-The main purpose of the @kbd{w} command is so that you can yank the
-file names into arguments for other Emacs commands. It also displays
-what was pushed onto the kill ring, so you can use it to display the
-list of currently marked files in the echo area.
-@end table
+you had killed them with @kbd{C-w}.
+
+ The main purpose of this command is so that you can yank the file
+names into arguments for other Emacs commands. It also displays what
+was pushed onto the kill ring, so you can use it to display the list
+of currently marked files in the echo area. With a zero prefix
+argument @var{n}=0, this uses the absolute file name of each marked
+file. With just @kbd{C-u} as the prefix argument, it uses the
+relative file name of each marked file. As a special case, if no
+prefix argument is given and point is on a directory headerline,
+@kbd{w} gives you the name of that directory without looking for
+marked files.
+
+ On the X window system, Emacs supports the ``drag and drop''
+protocol. You can drag a file object from another program, and drop
+it onto a Dired buffer; this either moves, copies, or creates a link
+to the file in that directory. Precisely which action is taken is
+determined by the originating program. Dragging files out of a Dired
+buffer is currently not supported.
@ignore
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