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Marcin Borkowski (mbork) has a nice post on opening a Dired buffer for an external drive. Plugging the drive into a USB port causes it to automount but then you have to call Dired on the path to the drive, … Continue reading →

James Dyer has another useful Emacs discovery. His workflow often involves copying large files, which he does from Emacs using Dired. Even though he’s configured Emacs to use rsync for Dired copies, the transfer can still take some time and … Continue reading →

Emacs Elements has a short video that explains something I didn’t know. You can tell Dired to not display certain files. My first thought was, “Why would I want that?” After all, if you have a file you probably want … Continue reading →

Just a quick tip from Ruslan Bekenev: find-grep-dired. It’s a nice way of running grep directly from a Dired buffer. The nice thing, as Bekenev points out is that the result is a filtered Dired listing of all the files … Continue reading →

I ran across this Toot—or whatever Mastodon calls it—in Sacha’s weekly Emacs News: Even though it’s sort of old news at this point, it’s worth calling attention to. The idea is to use occur to narrow down the files in … Continue reading →

I ran across a post by James Dyer, Dired Duplicate Here Revisited, that was interesting and I thought was worth writing about but I wasn’t sure there was enough there for a post. Then I saw this post by Álvaro … Continue reading →

Sooner or later almost every Emacs user discovers Dired and becomes a dedicated—or even fanatical—user. It’s basically a file manager but embedded within Emacs. As I’ve mentioned before, I tend to be an old-timey sort of guy so my natural … Continue reading →

Yi Tang has an interesting post on the dired-rsync package. It’s been around for a while, apparently, but I hadn’t heard of it before Tang’s post. The TL;DR is it allows you to use rsync in dired in the same … Continue reading →

I’ve written about this many times before but it’s so useful it bears repeating. It’s about a technique I use all the time and one that I’m sure the rest of you will find worthwhile too. This post is inspired … Continue reading →