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There are two buffers in image-dired, one is the thumbnail buffer *image-dired*, the other is the displayed image buffer *image-dired-display-image*.

When I type return on an image thumbnail, the focus is switched to the displayed image buffer.

Is there a setting that will make the focus stay in the thumbnail buffer? What about making the displayed image buffer follow the focus in the thumbnail buffer without hitting return?

Edit: Turns out the culprit is shackle. If you use it, the default behaviour is restored with:

(setq shackle-rules
'(("\\`\\*image-dired.*?\\*\\'" :regexp t :select nil)
  (image-dired-thumbnail-mode :select nil)
  (image-dired-image-display-mode :select nil))
  shackle-default-rule '(:select t))
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When I type return on an image thumbnail, the focus is switched to the displayed image buffer. Is there a setting that will make the focus stay in the thumbnail buffer?

What you're asking for is the default behaviour so far as I can see (when running image-dired in both emacs 24.5 and 25.2). You should be able to confirm that by running emacs -Q.

What about making the displayed image buffer follow the focus in the thumbnail buffer without hitting return?

If you just want to cycle through the images, then:

  • SPC runs the command image-dired-display-next-thumbnail-original
  • DEL (translated from <backspace> in my case) runs the command image-dired-display-previous-thumbnail-original

As always, use C-hm to view help on the modes and keybindings for the current buffer.

When I run image-dired in a dired buffer, all files are marked, how to disable that behavior and mark the files in the thumbnail view manually?

Mark the files in dired and call M-x image-dired-display-thumbs instead of image-dired

That command is bound to C-td by default.

Type C-tC-h in a dired buffer to see other image/thumbnail-related bindings under that same prefix.

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  • When I run image-dired in a dired buffer, all files are marked, how to disable that behavior and mark the files in the thumbnail view manually? – godblessfq Mar 23 '17 at 07:16