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38. Dired, the Directory Editor
Dired makes an Emacs buffer containing a listing of a directory, and optionally some of its subdirectories as well. You can use the normal Emacs commands to move around in this buffer, and special Dired commands to operate on the files listed.
The Dired buffer is “read-only,” and inserting text in it is not useful, so ordinary printing characters such as d and x are redefined for special Dired commands. Some Dired commands mark or flag the current file (that is, the file on the current line); other commands operate on the marked files or on the flagged files. You first mark certain files in order to operate on all of them with on command.
The Dired-X package provides various extra features for Dired mode. See Dired-X: (dired-x)Top section `Top' in Dired Extra Version 2 User's Manual.
| 38.1 Entering Dired | How to invoke Dired. | |
| 38.2 Navigation in the Dired Buffer | Special motion commands in the Dired buffer. | |
| 38.3 Deleting Files with Dired | Deleting files with Dired. | |
| 38.4 Flagging Many Files at Once | Flagging files based on their names. | |
| 38.5 Visiting Files in Dired | Other file operations through Dired. | |
| 38.6 Dired Marks vs. Flags | Flagging for deletion vs marking. | |
| 38.7 Operating on Files | How to copy, rename, print, compress, etc. either one file or several files. | |
| 38.8 Shell Commands in Dired | Running a shell command on the marked files. | |
| 38.9 Transforming File Names in Dired | Using patterns to rename multiple files. | |
| 38.10 File Comparison with Dired | Running `diff' by way of Dired. | |
| 38.11 Subdirectories in Dired | Adding subdirectories to the Dired buffer. | |
| 38.12 Subdirectory Switches in Dired | Subdirectory switches in Dired. | |
| 38.13 Moving Over Subdirectories | Moving across subdirectories, and up and down. | |
| 38.14 Hiding Subdirectories | Making subdirectories visible or invisible. | |
| 38.15 Updating the Dired Buffer | Discarding lines for files of no interest. | |
38.16 Dired and find | Using `find' to choose the files for Dired. | |
| 38.17 Editing the Dired Buffer | Operating on files by editing the Dired buffer. | |
| 38.18 Viewing Image Thumbnails in Dired | Viewing image thumbnails in Dired | |
| 38.19 Other Dired Features | Various other features. |
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