That's neat: hitting `(` in #Dired mode toggles the visibility of detailed information in the current buffer.

It calls function `dired-hide-details-mode`, to be more precise.

#Emacs #tips

@publicvoit @timbray I bothered with not spacing right up until I noticed that at some point tab-completion had become a thing... like two decades ago (that I noticed, not sure if it became such earlier).

I promptly stopped caring after that. I eventually picked-up #Emacs (and more specificaly #dired) which made it even less of an issue and also covered weird/corrupt characters that most shells don't handle properly.

I've released v0.7 of #dired-rsync for #emacs. I assume most people have been tracking #melpa but for those stable fans: https://www.bennee.com/~alex/blog/2023/07/14/dired-rsync-07-released/

While testing a pull request for #dired-rsync I realised my #ert tests were broken and I never noticed because I can no longer see stuff in travis. It took a bit of trial and error but I've converted it all to #github actions now and got everything running again. I'll see if I can do the same for edit with #emacs tomorrow.

@summeremacs
you mean like #exa and i think also #lsd in terminal does it? Sure why not

#dired #emacs

And now for the last one: I came up with an idea two days ago and announced it on /r/emacs. It's a colouring system for items in #dired #Emacs. Almost none of my programmer friends could figure out why I would want to colour files different, which is funny because I can't think of a perfect system which *doesn't* use colours like this.

But somebody made it for me and it's now available and it works great. 💖 Thank you Karthink!

Dired-Delight
https://github.com/karthink/dired-delight

@zleap

If you are okay with #KDE apps, #KRename is great for this sort of thing.

You could also try rename (the perl version - it is "perl-rename" on #gentoo. Something like

# perl-rename 's/:/-/g' *

and

# perl-rename 's/\./_/g' *

BUT, not sure if you need to escape the . or not in that second one.

If you use #emacs, #dired would also let you do find and replace to bulk rename. Open a dired buffer in the folder, ctrl-x ctrl-q to make the buffer editable. C-c C-c to finish and rename.

Este #viernesdeescritorio quiero mostrarles... en realidad lo bueno está en la terminal arriba a la izquierda. ¿Vieron cuánta memoria; cuántos procesadores? 😉

Sí, también hay #emacs con #dired y un panel que estoy haciendo con #inkscape y todo gestionado por #i3.

#Emacs finding of the day:
when in #Dired mode, hitting `Z` (un)compresses a file or directory.

Quick docstring lookup with `C-h f dired-do-compress` says

```
Compress or uncompress marked (or next ARG) files.
If invoked on a directory, compress all of the files in
the directory and all of its subdirectories, recursively,
into a .tar.gz archive.
If invoked on a .tar.gz or a .tgz or a .zip or a .7z archive,
uncompress and unpack all the files in the archive.
```

It came in handy today!

🔴 Today on #SystemCrafters Live, we'll explore the depths of Emacs' Dired feature to see if we can discover some of its lesser-known capabilities. We'll try to figure out bulk file operations, file previews, advanced Dired buffer tricks, and more.

Let's figure out how to use this package properly!

Join us on YouTube or Twitch:

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#gnu #emacs #dired #freesoftware

I can't believe that #dired doesn't auto-update

@publicvoit I say #magit and #dired.

Finalizing a project, #emacs with #dired and #kmacros was the right tool for bulk replacing per-file CSS https://orys.us/uL

In Windows, there's an easy way to print documents from the file browser. I was hoping to find a similar method in Linux. There isn't really. I could write a brief Bash script to do the job, but that's excessive. There were add-ons for Dolphin that didn't work for me. Enter #Emacs with #dired. Just mark the files you want, then "P" to send them to the print command lpr. It may complain about no default. Get a list of printers `lpstat. lpstat -p -d and `lpoptions -d <printer>` to set the default.

@rysiek
I'm amused not to see it here yet, but #GNU #Emacs my favorite code editor and system shell should count. :3

One can use it for managing files (#dired), listening to music and watching videos (#emms), interacting with #Usenet (#Gnus), interacting with one's #email (#mu4e) or coding. All through a built-in scripting language called #EmacsLisp.

https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/emacs/

Less cheekily, https://git.sr.ht/~niklaseklund/detached.el is cool, it's like screen/tmux+ssh for Emacs, to run detached programs remotely.

Marcin Borkowski: The benefits of everything being a buffer
https://mbork.pl/2023-01-30_The_benefits_of_everything_being_a_buffer

#Emacs #dired #spellchecking

That's a thing:

(setq dired-dwim-target t)

#Emacs #dired #dwim #doWhatIMean

It's been a long slow day wading through stuff for $DAYJOB so it was nice to unwind with a little #elisp bug fix for #dired #rsync that kills two bugs in one patch: https://github.com/stsquad/dired-rsync/pull/42

Recently, I learned about #proced. Think #dired, but for processes. Very nice replacement for ps, top, kill...

Only limitation: It seems to work locally only, not over #TRAMP. That would be yet another #Emacs wizardry 🙂

Emacs is such a wonderful journey of "hrmm I wonder if that ... works ... sure does!" sometimes ... open a directory with dired and tramp over ssh via /ssh:host:/path/ and directory has a .tar.gz in it ... "hrmm ... I wonder" ... press RET on the tarball ... oh lordy that worked ... press RET on a file INSIDE the tarball ... oh sheesh that worked too <3 #emacs #dired #trampmode