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Transforming Dired File Paths into Org Links

I am of course using org mode for organizing my tasks, notes and other …

Simple Directory and File Creation in Dired

Today I’ll simply delve into two custom functions that I’ve had in …

Adding Disk Usage Reporting to Emacs Dired

Just a quick one today. One of the great strengths of Emacs is its …

Efficient File Searching in Emacs: Leveraging completing-read with Customizable Methods

I thought I would share a little bit of elisp that I’ve been using for a …

Sending Dired Directories to Meld for Directory Comparison

A common activity for a Software Engineer is to compare two directories, …

Emacs asynchronous copying using dired-async-mode

For a while now I’ve been using an rsync based dired-copy replacement for …

More Improvements to Dired Duplicate Here

On a previous post I created an elisp function to quickly duplicate a file or …

Recursively Listing Files in Size Order using find-name-dired

For a while now I have been looking for a simple method in emacs for trimming …

Opening Files Externally from dired

I have been using C-RET or W in dired for a while now to open a file externally …

Shrinking Media With The Help Of Emacs

Often I find myself refining my collection of photos and family videos, usually …

Dired Duplicate Here Revisited

It is not uncommon for me to want the ability to quickly duplicate a file, …

Moving Away From Deft

As the title says, it is with a heavy heart that I have decided to move away …

Dired Duplicate Here

dired can do most things for me especially now I have my DWIM image conversion …

Revisiting Window Cut / Copy Files with DWIM

I previously wrote about wanting the ability in emacs to copy and paste files …

Dired Ordering by Size

By default dired orders its files in alphanumeric order and when s is selected …

Tidying up Dired Further

Something is still bugging me with my dired tidy up and I think it is wanting to …

Tidying up Dired

Bit by bit I am getting to grips with dired and using this for more operations …

Dired folder size

My dired replacement of Dolphin / linux terminal continues. The next thing is …

Dired going Up Directories

Now dired is becoming more ingrained into my muscle memory, navigating …

Cut / Copy between Windows using Dired Buffers

The next step in my emacs journey is to move files around a little more easily, …