Questions tagged [dired]
Dired is a major mode that allows users to edit files and directories on a file system. It is essentially a file browser, with a wide range of features and an appearance similar to the `ls` command.
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Dired+. Is it possible to change color of recent created/edit files/folders?
Windows 10, Emacs 25.1, Dired+
I use file manager Total Commander. And I set them to show different color (blue) for recent(e.g 1 hour) created/edited files/folder. It's very comfortably.
Here ...
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Dired; Is it possible, to show video duration as column in dired view?
i want to let dired show the duration of multimedia files as a column inside the dired buffer detail view.
Is it possible?
Any third-party extensions for dired?
Currently i use
exiftool -T -...
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Switch between term and shell keeping directory
I am a beginner user of emacs so please answer being aware of this.
I use dired to connect to a remote computer and navigate directories.
I sometimes want to go to a shell or terminal on the remote ...
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Dired+. Autorefresh after copy files
Windows 10, Emacs 25.1, Dired+.
I copy file from one folder to another.
Here screens:
After copy I get the next result:
As you can see the bottom buffer is not refresh.
So I need to go to bottom ...
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Does Dired have something like “New Folder with Selection” of macOS Finder?
I want to create new folder then move file that is marked to that folder in emacs dired mode.
In macOS Finder, you can use the new folder with selection.
Is there a feature like this in emacs or ...
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Warning in WDired when renaming files to change capitalisation
I often use the command C-x C-q in dired (bound to dired-toggle-read-only) to rename files.
When I use this to change only capitalisation (eg, Foo.bar to foo.bar) then I use C-c C-c to apply the ...
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set `all-the-icons-dired` to use consistent directory icon?
I installed all-the-icons-dired package from melpa, however, it does not use consistent icons for directories. Some directories have their own special icon. Example, these are two directories:
The ....
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Short key to run a binary in dired-mode
In dired-mode I can type ! to use the selected file as an argument for a command. For instance, if I type ! rm <RET> it will run the command rm filename.
What I wanted is a short-key to run the ...
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Switch from Dired to Wdired rename file and directory errors when using “-F” or “--classify” ls switch regex help
If you set -F or --classify in the dired-actual-switches then it places a / at the end of directory names and * at the end of executables. When you finish renaming the files, these characters are ...
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Dired, async copy files
Windows 10, Emacs 25, Dired.
I tried to copy a lot of files in dired, and Emacs "freeze" while copying.
What is the best package for async copy/move files in Dired?
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Dired. Is it possible to change color of file name when file was changed?
Windows 10, Emacs 25.1
I use Dired+ as file manager. All files names color are yellow.
If some file was changed not later than one hour ago then :
this file name change it color, e.g blue
after one ...
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Dired: use dimmed face for file details (permissions, ownership, etc.)?
I'd like to customize dired so the non-filename details (permissions, ownership, etc.) are slightly dimmed, putting visual emphasis on the filenames themselves. I like having the details present (I ...
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Accidentally visiting a FIFO
I'm in Dired, and one of the files in the current directory is a named pipe (FIFO)
prw-r--r--+ 1 ivan staff 0 Feb 6 11:13 some_pipe
If I (accidentally) visit it (with dired-visit-file), ...
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Ranger: cleanup doesn't work
I started using ranger and it's awesome, but one thing bothers me: It keeps every visited folder open in a buffer, so it floods my buffer list.
There are two options that seem to be made to solve ...
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Dired: manual files sorting for specific directories
I have a directory with many folder. When I open it in dired I see this:
bundles
ckeditor
companies
contries
failitators
induction
jquery_update
lwt_shared
members
messages
offices
...
I often work ...
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Helm - How to change default selection while renaming?
I have a dired buffer with two files
foo.py
foo_bar.py
Now to rename foo.py to bar.py, if i goto foo.py, press R and type bar.py, helm selection will be like this
Here helm is selecting the ...
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How to use a classical development setup (file explorer + code + terminal) in Emacs
I like using the following setup for development:
+--------+---------------------------------+
| . | |
| | Python or JS |
| Dired+ | ...
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Would Emacs Manages Files and Writes in HDD in Someway That Would Cause Malfunction in it?
Noticed here that var partition is constantly returning error in boot process, compelling me to do a fsck frequentily.
Once it has been used to do high-level using, in dired, org, tramp, Bookmarks+ ...
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How to sort in Dired by size and extension and have directories listed first and full date/time details
I'm using the excelent dired-fixups.el by Dino Chiesa for sorting in Dired by size and extension (see here).
The only gotcha is that I'd like to combine it with a fuller date/time description. Also, ...
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How to Set Visit File Keystroke to Ask Root Password If Needed in Dired Mode
Trying here to accelerate root file editing via dired mode.
That way thought in somehow adjust visit file keystroke f, as default, to either ask for root password or to enter it as root automatically....
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Can Dired (or Dired+) detect symlinks in Windows?
Can Dired(+) be made to show symlinks in Windows?
A picture is worth a thousand words:
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Dired-narrow view disappears after using dired-toggle-read-only
I use the package dired-narrow (which I have bound to C-x /) together with dired-toggle-read-only (C-x C-q). However, if I press C-c C-c to commit my changes after using dired-toggle-read-only this ...
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Sorting org files in Emacs Dired on the basis of the org time stamp in the file itself
Is there a way of sorting org files (.org) in Emacs Dired on the basis of the org time stamp in the file itself. With every org file I create, I insert an org time stamp near the top of the file. This ...
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Using dired via tramp on a remote machine
Maybe I am missing something rather simple but I completely fail to use dired on a remote machine. I can connect via ssh directly without emacs and I can edited a file using Tramp on the remote ...
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dired-do-copy in tramp does not go to local when `\ C-j` is pressed. File path stays in the same directory
I am using dired-do-copy to copy a file from remote using tramp to local.
When Copy file to path is promted. I used / C-j to go to local path but the path stays in the same directory , does not go to ...
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opening org link in dired
[[D:/dev::line][code]] stores the link to my code directory. How can i used dired to open it in emacs. Currently with this code explorer opens the directory. I'm using Windows 7.
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org-attach from a Dired buffer
I want to be able to attach files to a sub-tree from a Dired buffer. The org-mode manual gives instructions on how to do this in the link below:
https://orgmode.org/manual/Attachments.html
At the ...
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Folder navigation on remote windows machine can't see folders with spaces
I've been trying to navigate folder structures on a remote Windows machine with Cygwin installed, but I can't seem to navigate to folders which contain a space in them. Emacs claims that "File no ...
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Adding another column of information to dired (text snippets by Gnome Tracker)
I have a small Emacs Lisp function which calls Gnome Tracker's FTS Search via D-Bus and display results in a dired buffer.
[ https://gist.github.com/vishalbelsare/4f78722856a6bca7faf1f73353892025 ]
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How copy file from Windows to smartphone (Symbian) in dired mode?
Windows 10, Emacs 25.1, Dired+.
When I connect (via microUSB) my smartphone (Nokia) to my computer, the Windows 10 success detect new device.
And as result I can success copy/move file from Windows ...
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Dired+: Copy to nonexistent directory
Windows 10, Emacs 25.1, Dired+
I try to copy a file from test folder to nonexistent folder new:
But I get this error:
Is it possible to make Emacs autocreate folder new and copy the file to it?
It ...
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Is there any way to abbreviate dired-header?
/home/farhad/phpPlay:
controllers
index.php
/home/farhad/phpPlay/controllers:
index.php
In a dired-mode buffer like above I want to replace /home/farhad/ with ~. Is it possible?
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emacs dired ignores LC_COLLATE=C when using sudo?
My emacs dired changes sort order from ASCII to case-insensitive whenever I view a directory listing under sudo::. Checking getenv on LC_COLLATE shows that emacs still thinks the value is 'C'; and ls -...
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Manage freedesktop trashcan with dired mode
Trashed files are stored in the FreeDesktop standard location:
~/.local/share/Trash/files. How do I restore or permanently delete files in that folder using dired?
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When starting dired, go to the existing dired window
I'm getting better and better at using emacs but one thing is annoying when using dired. When I run dired, it opens a new one, which is obviously the intended behaviour. Would it be possible to write ...
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How to make dired-do-async-shell-command wait for all sub processes to finish
I'm trying to run the bash script, ~/bin/xlda, ...
#!/bin/sh
# ~/bin/xlda
old_filename="$1"
new_filename=`echo $old_filename | sed 's/\(.*\.\)flac/\1m4a/'`
~/bin/xld -f alac -o "$new_filename" "$...
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How can I make dired display .tbz2 files
When using dired and I see a .tar.xz file I can visit this file in other window (<mouse-1>) and the file is a browsable tar archive.
How do I get .tbz2 files to behave in the same way?
I am ...
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Emacs on Windows. Dired - no sorting. Unrecognized symbols
Set up Doom Emacs on windows. Works fine but in Dired i have unrecognized symbols and also in org-capture. Sorting in dired does not work either. Any ideas? Latest Emacs.
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How to make directed-subtree-cycle ignore the specified file?
I'm using dired harks https://github.com/Fuco1/dired-hacks. I've used directed omit to ignore files. But when I use dired-subtree, dired-subtree-cycle expansion can't ignore omit files in real time. ...
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How to delete symlinks in Dired?
Attempting to delete a symlink in Dired gave me an unexpected result: the target got deleted.
I have lots of Lisp code, and that may be a bug in some Lisp code that is not currently part of Emacs.
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How to view .docx file from Dired with Cygwin Emacs?
Existing approaches suggest pandoc+markdown or unoconv+Libreoffice and both results are circuitous.
Is there a way to get something close to how PDF pages are rendered with pdf-tools? I have tried ...
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How do I dired delete in helm?
I just installed Helm and it looks really cool. However, I don't understand how to use dired anymore.
I'd usually C-x d to see my directory, then I could do operations like add or delete files. Now ...
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How change directory only in one window
Emacs 26.1,
Dired+
Open some folder in dired mode.
Split buffer by M-4 (split-window-vertically)
Now I want to open src folder but only in TOP WINDOW. The bottom window must not be change. I press ...
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Replace normal state keymap in Evil with another
I don't like Evil collections or the Evil keybindings in the dired-mode. I would like to re-map only few keys in the normal state like j, k, and a few more keys with g prefix and I would like to keep ...
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Add custom project config loading via `.dir-local.el`
I have a custom config for a project which I would like to load whenever emacs is started from project's root directory. The custom config lies in path/to/project/emacs.d/custom-init.el. I have also ...
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Using `dired-do-compress-to` with `tramp`
Within a eamcs -q session and in a tramp dired buffer and call dired-do-compress-to on a file, I got this eror
zip I/O error: No such file or directory
zip error: Could not create output file (/ssh:...
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After Filename Option Shell Command on Given File
How can be executed an shell command on given file with options AFTER the filename?
Trying here to run convert ScramTree.pdf ScramTreeImg.png via ! on dired mode, but command runs minibuffer input ...
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Why am I getting `max-specpdl-size` error on one markdown file when opening via projectile but not dired?
I am getting a max-specdl-size error on only one .markdown file. I have increased the size via (setq max-specpdl-size 50000) to test, and I still get the error. This does not happen on any other ....
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Dired move file with quotation
When I do dired-do-copy on a file with a quotation for example "test"f.txt,
I get the following error when copying/moving file with quotation symbols
Copy ‘/home/user/Music/"test"f.txt’ to ‘/media/...
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Error in post-command-hook (ido-exhibit): (invalid-regexp “Trailing backslash”)
Windows 10, Emacs 26.1, Ido, Dired
Suppose I'm in in Dired mode. I'm in folder d:/TEMP/test_cases/
And I want to jump to folder e:\BACKUP\mobile\my_backup\
The path is in kill-ring.
So here steps:
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