Function: dired-virtual-mode

dired-virtual-mode is an interactive and byte-compiled function defined in dired-x.el.gz.

Signature

(dired-virtual-mode)

Documentation

Put current buffer into Virtual Dired mode (see dired-virtual).

Useful on magic-mode-alist with the regexp

  "^ \\\\(/[^ /]+\\\\)+/?:$"

to put saved Dired buffers automatically into Virtual Dired mode.

Also useful for auto-mode-alist like this:

  (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist
               '("[^/]\\\\.dired\\\\\\='" . dired-virtual-mode))

Key Bindings

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/dired-x.el.gz
;; A zero-arg version of dired-virtual.
(defun dired-virtual-mode ()
  "Put current buffer into Virtual Dired mode (see `dired-virtual').
Useful on `magic-mode-alist' with the regexp

  \"^  \\\\(/[^ /]+\\\\)+/?:$\"

to put saved Dired buffers automatically into Virtual Dired mode.

Also useful for `auto-mode-alist' like this:

  (add-to-list \\='auto-mode-alist
               \\='(\"[^/]\\\\.dired\\\\\\='\" . dired-virtual-mode))"
  (interactive)
  (dired-virtual (dired-virtual-guess-dir)))