Function: dired-initial-position

dired-initial-position is a byte-compiled function defined in dired.el.gz.

Signature

(dired-initial-position DIRNAME)

Documentation

Where point should go in a new listing of DIRNAME.

Point is assumed to be at the beginning of new subdir line. It runs the hook dired-initial-position-hook.

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/dired.el.gz
;; FIXME document whatever dired-x is doing.
(defun dired-initial-position (dirname)
  "Where point should go in a new listing of DIRNAME.
Point is assumed to be at the beginning of new subdir line.
It runs the hook `dired-initial-position-hook'."
  (end-of-line)
  (and (featurep 'dired-x) dired-find-subdir
       (dired-goto-subdir dirname))
  (if dired-trivial-filenames (dired-goto-next-nontrivial-file))
  (run-hooks 'dired-initial-position-hook))