Hello,
often i use Emacs editor with lisp package "dired" as file manager. See
also URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dired .
Some days ago i do not need only simple file operations like copy and delete
files, but i need additional features. This "extra" features for Emacs's
Dired Mode are provided by lisp package "dired-x". The ls-like directory
listing used by dired mode can be also handled as virtual dired modes. That
means content of buffer can be saved/read as file with name extension
".dired". These files are described by trid as "Unknown!".
So i create trid definitions for such examples. After running tridscan
on many different examples i get only 1 pattern like:
<Bytes>2020</Bytes>
<Pos>0</Pos>
This is maybe to unspecific. Instead of creating dired.trid.xml i look
for distinguishing features. On first examples directory listing contain
a summary line which looks like:
total used in directory 10207 available 35079376
This gives in first trid definition in global string section XML pattern
like:
<String>TOTAL USED IN DIRECTORY</String>
But when i changed language from English to German like in example
test6-dired-de.dired the summary line contains now German words and
line now looks like:
insgesamt 40
So such patterns can not be used in general. So i mention fact concerning
language in remark line. Furthermore i use URL of "dired-x" manual as
reference by XML construct:
<RefURL>
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/dired-x.html#Virtual-Dired</RefURL>
When running on Windows systems directory names always contain drive
letter and colon character at the beginning like line:
C:/WINDOWS/TEMP:
This is expressed in dired-doswin.trid.xml by additional XML construct:
<Bytes>3A2F</Bytes>
<ASCII> : /</ASCII>
<Pos>3</Pos>
When running on UNIX like operating system directory name starts with
root ( "/" character) at beginning like example:
/tmp:
This is expressed in dired-unix.trid.xml by additional XML construct:
<Bytes>2F</Bytes>
<ASCII> /</ASCII>
<Pos>2</Pos>
With new 2 trid definition files all inspected *.dired examples are now
recognized (see appended output/trid-new.txt). TrID definitions, some
examples and output are stored in archive dired.zip. I hope that the two
XML files can be used in future version of triddefs.
With best wishes
J?rg Jenderek
