TIL you can drag and drop files from MacOS finder into #emacs #dired and they will copy!

#emacs has really got me spoiled! I needed to copy all files from a directory, but with exceptions. Thought of writing a script for this, but I'm not very familiar with filesystems apis, I'd have to review the LLMs code. I just opened #dired, marked the files I didn't want to copy, toggled (inverted) the marks and copied what I needed.

@harish

#OrgMode
#denote
#dired

#emacs

My computer #files need a cleanup.

But I have many files, this will take multiple sessions to do.

My hunch is that #emacs and #dired can help.

What I want is to go throught files, tagging them (say, this is reference material, this is media, etc.)
adding a marker adds a line in a "sorting files" script (information about the file, such as inode, whether it is a soft link, what its name, checksum and desired annotation are, etc.). After this I can (hopefully programmatically) move the files.

Hmm I kinda wish the #dirvish extension had submitted fixes and enhancements to the #upstream project rather than just lift and shifted the code. At least the license is the same: https://github.com/alexluigit/dirvish/blob/main/extensions/dirvish-rsync.el

#emacs #dired #rsync

Added explanations about file management with #fsel utility. Also draftly integrated it with #Dired in the #Emacs.

https://github.com/uwfmt/fsel
+
https://github.com/uwfmt/emacs-fm

As a follow-up to this conversation about #ded #console #rulers, Thomas Dickey had this to say (in response to an email I'd sent him):

It's a visual reminder of how far left/right I've scrolled, in either the directory listing, or in the built-in pager. If you're using the pager, the scrolling applies to that.

Neither of those wraps lines, and when I
began that (in 1987), had no other programs to do that sort of thing.

If I'm scrolling left/right, I want to know where I am. If I scroll too far the right, and the screen's blank, that helps :-)

I see it's in the initial version of dedview.c, in April 1992, which precedes any of the followup versions of #dired. In turn, that says it was split from ded.c, so... in that file I see a ruler (in showFILES), which is from November 1987. The 'Xbase' variable corresponds to left/right scrolling - but that's the initial version of ded.c (I don't recall if the intermediate version that I wrote beginning around December/January 1986 did that, but have a hunch that this was something that I did for the improved version, with the ring of active directories, etc).

I had modified the initial version seen here:

https://groups.google.com/g/net.sources/c/_lGkTpsqyPE/m/SwhkKsBuayIJ

to move its divider line up and down in late 1983, and incorporated a similar divider into the versions that I wrote from scratch. I don't recall if I added column numbers to my changes in the original dired, but may have, since it seems "obvious".

Thanks for that, Thomas!!

Another milestone in getting rid of things, this time the victim is: a file manager.

It finally come to my attention that after I cared to finally configure #zsh five years ago I no longer use vifm or even #dired... I'm sure this is the way towards enlightenment.

#emacs #dired help please

I've spent a 🤬 HOURS trying to make this work, and even with the most minimal config.el I can't get it.

How do i convince dired to leave dired-hide-details-mode on by default, even when it opens a new window/buffer (ex, when i navigate into a directotry).

pretty sure what I have in the screenshot _used_ to work, but after upgrading emacs to 30.2 it doesn't.

I'm using doom emacs if that makes a difference but I'm pretty sure it doesn't.

✨ New blog post ✨

Interactive ordering of dired items

https://xenodium.com/interactive-ordering-of-dired-items

#emacs #oss #elisp #lisp #dired #imagemagick

I was just looking at “man ls” (as one should) and found this. So ls has a special flag for #dired #emacs ?

TIL. We can do everything whit #embark
If you call embark in dired you can select & and then write exiftool.
Sure that @oantolin could ilustrate us how to do it directly and only in multimedia files 😊
I'm joking. Let's read some documentation!
#emacs #dired #quietsaturday

TIL There is a simple package for dired very useful to get the properties of multimedia files: https://github.com/misohena/dired-file-info
You must to have exiftool installed to get all the stuff.
#emacs #dired #multimedia

🌖 Guix 中的 Emacs dired-mode 作為檔案管理器
➤ 使用 Emacs dired-mode 打造個人化的檔案管理體驗
✤ https://lynn.sh/guix-emacs-file-manager.html
這篇文章描述了作者如何使用 Emacs 的 dired-mode 作為其在 Guix 系統中的主要檔案管理器。作者指出，他原本並不需要一個專門的檔案管理器，直到他發現點擊「在資料夾中顯示」功能時，系統無法正確地將目錄開啟到 Emacs 的 dired-mode。為瞭解決此問題，作者利用 Guix 的 `home-xdg-mime-applications-service-type` 功能，將目錄的 MIME 類型 (inode/directory) 連結到 Emacs 的 dired-mode，從而實現了點擊後直接在 Emacs 中開啟目錄的功能。作者也分享瞭如何擴展此設定以支援其他檔案類型，並推薦了 rde 這個 Guix 的輔助框架。
+ 「我一直覺得 Emacs 很好用，
#Guix #Emacs #檔案管理 #dired-mode #Linux

Emacs dired-mode as a file manager

https://lynn.sh/guix-emacs-file-manager.html

#HackerNews #Emacs #dired-mode #file #manager #EmacsTips #filemanagement #technews

@vermutliCHEmie Take a look at my #dired #hydra which has features to add links to files quite easily: https://github.com/novoid/dot-emacs/blob/master/config.org

#emacs #filemanagement

#Question for all #Emacs folks out there.

I come from 20+ years of IDEs: usual layout of project files on the left and content on the right.
No more dev now, but daily Emacs for my digital garden: https://marcoxbresciani.codeberg.page/

I use #speedbar in another frame, to see the #OrgMode folder I'm working on, sort of IDE-like layout.

Is #dired an alternative way to have this project files/current files layout?
Are there other ways, without adding external packages?

So why am I experimenting with #emacs #dired overlays? Maybe these can become part of Ready Player Mode...

#linux #oss #macos #music

More experiments adding #audio #metadata as #emacs #dired buffer overlays

#macos #linux #music

Experimenting adding #audio #metadata as #emacs #dired buffer overlays

#macos #linux