> The Emacs analog to Windows Explorer is dired (directory editor). > In Windows Explorer you can select a file, right-click, and select > an operation to perform on that file. In Emacs dired you can select > a file and perform an operation on that file. > > However the set of operations Emacs knows about is different from > the set of operations Windows Explorer knows about. In addition > to the usual dired operations, I'd really like to be able to run > the operations Windows Explorer knows about from within the Windows > version of Emacs. Does anyone know if this capability has ever > been implemented? If so, what do I need to install?
Load `w32-browser.el' and `dired+.el', and you'll be good to go. http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/DiredPlus#toc2 http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs-en/download/w32-browser.el http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs-en/download/dired%2b.el (You might also be interested in Bookmark+, which lets you take advantage of MS Windows file associations when using bookmarks: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/BookmarkPlus#toc33)