Re: org-fstree.el overview over directories (but no comments are possible)

[Juan Manuel Macías]

Uwe Brauer writes:

> The only problem is one cannot add comments in the sense when the tree
> is updated everything gets replaced
> as indicated:
>
> ;;   - when triggering an update (by pressing "C-c C-c" while in the line 
> mentioned above)
> ;;     the COMPLETE REGION BETWEEN "#+BEGIN_FSTREE" AND "#+END_FSTREE" IS 
> REPLACED.
> ;;   - speed  
>
>
> So I am wondering. Is there any new package or an update I am not aware
> of that would allow adding comments?

Hi Uwe,

I tried this package a long time ago, and I found the problems you
mention. I noticed also that in large directories it took a eternity to
create the Org nodes. The idea of the package is not bad, but I did not
find a practical use for it. I currently have dired-subtree-toggle
installed, which allows expanding and collapsing dired directories, and
assigned these keyboard shortcuts to it:

  (with-eval-after-load 'dired
    (define-key dired-mode-map (kbd "<tab>") 'dired-subtree-toggle)
    (define-key dired-mode-map (kbd "C-<tab>") 'dired-subtree-cycle))

As to whether there is any new package that does the same thing as
org-fstree, AFAIK I don't think so. Out of curiosity, what use case
would you give to such a package?

Best regards,

Juan Manuel