Function: dired-extra-startup

dired-extra-startup is an interactive and byte-compiled function defined in dired-x.el.gz.

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(dired-extra-startup)

Documentation

Automatically put on dired-mode-hook to get extra Dired features:
  V (dired-do-run-mail) -- run mail on folder (see dired-bind-vm)
  F (dired-do-find-marked-files) -- visit all marked files simultaneously
  C-x M-o (dired-omit-mode) -- toggle omitting of files
  M-( (dired-mark-sexp) -- mark by Lisp expression

To see the options you can set, use M-x customize-group (customize-group) RET dired-x RET. See also the functions:
  dired-flag-extension
  dired-virtual
  dired-vm
  dired-rmail
  dired-do-find-marked-files

Key Bindings

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/dired-x.el.gz
(defun dired-extra-startup ()
  "Automatically put on `dired-mode-hook' to get extra Dired features:
\\<dired-mode-map>
  \\[dired-do-run-mail]\t-- run mail on folder (see `dired-bind-vm')
  \\[dired-do-find-marked-files]\t-- visit all marked files simultaneously
  \\[dired-omit-mode]\t-- toggle omitting of files
  \\[dired-mark-sexp]\t-- mark by Lisp expression

To see the options you can set, use \\[customize-group] RET dired-x RET.
See also the functions:
  `dired-flag-extension'
  `dired-virtual'
  `dired-vm'
  `dired-rmail'
  `dired-do-find-marked-files'"
  (interactive)
  ;; These must be done in each new dired buffer.
  (dired-omit-startup))