My Emacs Configuration (Dired)
The author details their personal workflow and configuration for Dired, the file manager built into the Emacs text editor. The post explains how they transitioned from CLI tools to Dired for a more interactive and integrated file management experience.
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My Emacs configuration (Dired) A calendar icon 05 Jul 2026 A tag icon emacs it
This blog post is a part of the series of posts about my Emacs configuration. Previous posts:
Here I will be dedicated to the configuration, and my habits, and usual actions during the Dired usage. I decided not to just describe configuration and that's all — you could read a lot of likewise blogposts already. Instead of it I also would like to describe how I am using Dired every day.
Little explanation about Dired for readers, who didn't use it before. It is a program for Emacs which works as a powerful file browser, which treats your precious files and directories as an (almost) usual Emacs buffer — so you can navigate through and work with you catalogs using the same "emacs-habits".
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