Re: A question about dired-tree-up and switching w32 drive in dired

[Lennart Borgman]

David Hunter wrote:

> Lennart Borgman wrote:
>
> > I am trying to use `dired-tree-up' on w32. I get the error (error 
> > "Cannot go up to d:/upperdir/ - not in this tree"). d:/upperdir/ 
> > exists and is the directory dired is showing. What is wrong?
>
>
> Hmm... did you dired "d:/upperdir/somedir" then run 'dired-tree-up'?  
> That would make sense, and you want to use 'dired-up-directory' 
> instead.  'dired-tree-up' does what you want when your dired buffer 
> contains both "d:/upperdir" and "d:/upperdir/somedir" and point is on 
> the latter.

Thanks Dave, you are right. But I must say that the message "Cannot go 
up ..." is not very informative when you are not that used to dired.

I thought that this might be related to the missing possibility to go up 
to the level where I could choose drive, but it does not seem to be so. 
It seems like you have to know about C-x d. I think this makes it a bit 
hard for beginners on w32.