My Emacs Configuration (Dired)

clircle

Thanks, dired-hide-details-mode is particularly neato. I also learned a few things about marking.

stackghost

I use emacs almost every day, and it's a continual source of frustration that the community seems allergic to sane defaults. If the editor ships a built in file manager, that file manager should not require explicit configuration to open e.g. a jpeg in an image viewer by default. We've had `xdg-open` for years now, it's kind of absurd how far behind emacs is in so many ways.

krupan

Just FYI, dired without any configuring or customizing is pretty rad, especially with wdired-mode for editing filenames. You don't need to read this blog post to benefit from it. Also, wgrep-mode for editing files is amazing

xenodium

Tangentially related, I wrote https://github.com/xenodium/dwim-shell-command to save all sorts of command invocations (I'm looking at you ffmpeg) and easily batch apply to dired files. Here's a demo video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77NtPfgr4x0

TacticalCoder

> So the filenames could be edited as usual text: with the help of isearch-query-replace-regexp, macros and other cool Emacs features. One dired/wdired feature I use all the time is to edit filenames by using multiple cursors. Either that or, as TFA mentions, keyboard macros. It's really powerful. The author also has a blog entry about getting rid of use-package : https://eugene-andrienko.com/2025-10-10-emacs-ditch-use-pack... It's funny because my config is a half-arsed one where it's partially use-package and partially old-school config. It's an old config and at some point I move to use-package and now I moved back to "not use-package" but I mostly kept the part that are using use-package as-is. I've got about 3000 to 4000 elisp config lines. And counting...