{"id":6770,"date":"2017-11-24T14:34:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T19:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=6770"},"modified":"2017-11-24T14:34:39","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T19:34:39","slug":"using-emacs-38-dired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=6770","title":{"rendered":"Using Emacs 38: Dired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Mike Zamansky has his <a href=\"http:\/\/cestlaz.github.io\/posts\/using-emacs-38-dired\/#disqus_thread\">latest video<\/a> up. This time it&rsquo;s about Dired. Dired is one of the great features of Emacs but many users are only dimly aware of it and don&rsquo;t make full use of its capabilities. Zamansky&rsquo;s video is an excellent introduction to some of those capabilities. One of those features, writable dired, is extraordinarily useful and something I use all the time. Zamansky has a nice demonstration of using it to rename several files at once. <\/p>\n<p> One feature that Zamansky didn&rsquo;t mention is doing a regular expression search on a set of files by marking them in Dired and then typing <kbd>A<\/kbd>. You can also do a query replace by typing <kbd>Q<\/kbd>. There are many more commands like these\u2014take a look at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gnu.org\/software\/emacs\/refcards\/pdf\/dired-ref.pdf\">GNU Dired reference card<\/a> for details. <\/p>\n<p> As with all of Zamansky&rsquo;s videos, this one is definitely worth your time, especially if you aren&rsquo;t using Dired regularly. The video is about 16 and a third minutes long so you&rsquo;ll need to put aside some time for it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Zamansky has his latest video up. This time it&rsquo;s about Dired. Dired is one of the great features of Emacs but many users are only dimly aware of it and don&rsquo;t make full use of its capabilities. Zamansky&rsquo;s video &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=6770\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-6770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-emacs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6771,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6770\/revisions\/6771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}