[gnu.emacs] dired-mode

zeger%merlin@HUB.UCSB.EDU (Zeger) (02/17/89)

I would like to define some keys to be my own functions in dired-mode.
I tried putting in my .emacs the following line:

(define-key dired-mode-map "l" 'dired-my-function)

This results in an error since dired is autoloaded the first time it is
called and hence dired-mode-map is unknown at the time .emacs is loaded.
I fixed this by also putting in my .emacs the line:

(load "dired" nil t)

But this means I have to load dired every time I load .emacs.
Is there some better way yo accomplish what I want?
Maybe a dired-mode-hook would be a good idea?

Ken Zeger
(zeger@hub.ucsb.edu)