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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 →

Ashok Khanna has a quick introduction to the basics of Dired. It’s not even a précis of the Dired section of the Emacs manual and doesn’t mention the essential Wdired mode but it is a useful post to get you … Continue reading →

Protesilaos Stavrou has a new video up about his customizations of dired. Dired is one of those things that you either love or ignore. Even I, a hardcore command line guy, use dired for the majority of my file operations. … Continue reading →

Like most Emacs users, I consider Dired the way of dealing with file operations. That means a lot coming from me because I’m an old timer used to dealing with such things from the command line. But even after a … Continue reading →

Ramit Mittal is a new Spacemacs user who decided that for 15 days he would use Dired for all his file operations. That’s not hard to do. I don’t always use Dired but it’s usually easier than bringing up or … Continue reading →

Marcin Borkowski (mbork) has a handy tip concerning something I didn’t know about. If you use dired—as you should—for your file operations and you know that you can use C to copy one or more files. By default, the command, … Continue reading →

Via Wilfred Huges we have this useful tip: Uhm. No, I didn’t. https://t.co/eUQesn9ACk — Jonas Bernoulli (@magit_emacs) November 9, 2019 Apparently, it’s not widely known. I just tried it—I’m running dired+—and it worked perfectly. It’s easy to see how the … Continue reading →

Mike Zamansky’s been busy dealing with admissions for next year’s Freshmen and other professorial duties but he has found time to give us a new video in his Using Emacs Series. This one is about using dired-subtree and dired-narrow, two … Continue reading →

Here’s a great tip from learn emacs on how to change a group of file names: Need to change alot of file names in a directory at once? Dired to the rescue! M-x dired C-x C-q (to toggle dired buffer/dir … Continue reading →