My Emacs Configuration (Dired)

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My Emacs Configuration (Dired)

(eugene-andrienko.com)

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by meysamazad

xenodium
011h
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
krupan
213h
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
1. TacticalCoder
  110h
  > Also, wgrep-mode for editing files is amazing
  Emacs is amazing: I'm using it since the nineties and I've got quite the custom config. I've got zero clue has to what wgrep-mode is.
  1. minikomi
    09h
    wgrep-mode lets you collect matches from `grep` or `rg` into an editable buffer. Once you’ve finished editing, it propagates the changes back to the original files.
clircle
014h
Thanks, dired-hide-details-mode is particularly neato. I also learned a few things about marking.
stackghost
714h
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.
1. mimischi
  113h
  I think that’s what many enjoy—and probably why many other steer away from—Emacs: its malleability. It has some defaults that are grounded in some usecase that have persisted for decades, and to change them would take hours of arguing on the mailing list.. or you could just change the defaults yourself to your liking.
TacticalCoder
011h
> 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...