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.
Questions tagged [dired]
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Edit file with super-user rights
When you have to edit system files, it's an usual situation that you launched Emacs with a normal user before, so the file will be write-protected. What can I do to gain root privileges? I mean something like M-x sudo from dired.
I don't want to…
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How to quickly copy/move file in Emacs Dired?
In Dired mode, I can m mark files and R to move them to a destination.
Some times the destination path is too long. With the destination open in a split window, is there a way to move files quicker?
When I see the two dired windows on the screen,…
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Tree-based directory browser?
I love dired, but sometimes (particularly when filming screencasts) I want to see the tree-structure of a directory and its children, a la the tree(1) command. Is there a tree-oriented directory browser for Emacs?
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Why can't I list the contents of Desktop on macos using dired?
When I do C-x C-f on ~/Desktop/ in macos Catalina, I get the following error.
Listing directory failed but 'access-file' worked
I can list the directory for just ~.
I'm new to Emacs and know little else. I've tried installing Emacs through Homebrew…
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Is there a way to use query-replace from grep/ack/ag output modes?
I'm aware of find-grep-dired, marking the corresponding files and then pressing Q to run dired-do-query-replace-regexp on the marked files. Unfortunately that requires restarting the grep and no longer using git-grep, ack, or ag and switching to use…
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Close all dired buffers
Sometimes my buffer list has 10+ dired windows, and I end up using buffer-menu to manually mark and kill all of them. Is there a faster way to close all open dired windows?
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Current path in Dired or Dired+ to clipboard
Say we have a Dired buffer open on some directory. How can I send the directory path to the clipboard?
Also, how can I do the same when the Dired cursor is on a specific file, without opening the file first?
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How to set emacs as the default file manager?
Some programs like firefox have buttons that when clicked open a file manager for browsing files. How do I make it to open in emacs with dired mode on Debian Linux?
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Dired "quick-view" key to preview the file at point
I would like to create a function that does a "quick view" of a file the is under point in dired.
The way that I would like for this to work is that I hold down a function key, which then makes the file visible in a buffer, but when I let off of…
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Dired+ missing from MELPA
I am trying to install dired+ from MELPA but it seems that it no longer is listed.
I also checked here: https://melpa.org/
Is this normal?
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Simple ways to copy/paste files and directories between dired buffers
Is there a simple M-w C-y approach to copy paste files and directories between two dired buffers?
I mean marking some items (files and buffer) by m then copying them by M-w (or another shortcut), then going to another dired buffer (which is not…
Name
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Finding files by names
How can I bring all files with names that conform a specific regex, recursively in a directory tree, to a single dired buffer?
So I can rename/delete them all at once?
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Recursively open files matching regexp in marked directories
Generally speaking, I would like to be able to open all files within a given set of directories (and their subdirectories) where the filename matches a given regexp.
For example
/home/nispio/project:
total used in directory 1612 available…
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Display recursive folder sizes in-line in dired?
I'd like to display the recursive size (the value that would be reported by du) of folder contents in-line in the dired buffer as an additional column or in place of the directory file size. Is this already possible with dired/dired+ or a related…
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Tramp/Dired transfers files inline over ssh instead of using scp externaly
I am using tramp via ssh to access remote files. For text files, this is working really well, but whenever I want to copy larger remote files to my local machine, tramp uses its slow inline method (encoding the file with gzip). This is much slower…
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