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tallcloud#emacs has really got me spoiled! I needed to copy all files from a directory, but with exceptions. Thought of writing a script for this, but I'm not very familiar with filesystems apis, I'd have to review the LLMs code. I just opened #dired, marked the files I didn't want to copy, toggled (inverted) the marks and copied what I needed.
Dekks Herton
naiaMy computer #files need a cleanup.
But I have many files, this will take multiple sessions to do.
My hunch is that #emacs and #dired can help.
What I want is to go throught files, tagging them (say, this is reference material, this is media, etc.)
adding a marker adds a line in a "sorting files" script (information about the file, such as inode, whether it is a soft link, what its name, checksum and desired annotation are, etc.). After this I can (hopefully programmatically) move the files.
AlexHmm I kinda wish the #dirvish extension had submitted fixes and enhancements to the #upstream project rather than just lift and shifted the code. At least the license is the same: https://github.com/alexluigit/dirvish/blob/main/extensions/dirvish-rsync.el
Alexander GrafovAdded explanations about file management with #fsel utility. Also draftly integrated it with #Dired in the #Emacs.
https://github.com/uwfmt/fsel
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https://github.com/uwfmt/emacs-fm
Thomas AdamAs a follow-up to this conversation about #ded #console #rulers, Thomas Dickey had this to say (in response to an email I'd sent him):
It's a visual reminder of how far left/right I've scrolled, in either the directory listing, or in the built-in pager. If you're using the pager, the scrolling applies to that.
Neither of those wraps lines, and when I
began that (in 1987), had no other programs to do that sort of thing.
If I'm scrolling left/right, I want to know where I am. If I scroll too far the right, and the screen's blank, that helps :-)
I see it's in the initial version of dedview.c, in April 1992, which precedes any of the followup versions of #dired. In turn, that says it was split from ded.c, so... in that file I see a ruler (in showFILES), which is from November 1987. The 'Xbase' variable corresponds to left/right scrolling - but that's the initial version of ded.c (I don't recall if the intermediate version that I wrote beginning around December/January 1986 did that, but have a hunch that this was something that I did for the improved version, with the ring of active directories, etc).
I had modified the initial version seen here:
https://groups.google.com/g/net.sources/c/_lGkTpsqyPE/m/SwhkKsBuayIJ
to move its divider line up and down in late 1983, and incorporated a similar divider into the versions that I wrote from scratch. I don't recall if I added column numbers to my changes in the original dired, but may have, since it seems "obvious".
Thanks for that, Thomas!!
masukomiI've spent a 🤬 HOURS trying to make this work, and even with the most minimal config.el I can't get it.
How do i convince dired to leave dired-hide-details-mode on by default, even when it opens a new window/buffer (ex, when i navigate into a directotry).
pretty sure what I have in the screenshot _used_ to work, but after upgrading emacs to 30.2 it doesn't.
I'm using doom emacs if that makes a difference but I'm pretty sure it doesn't.
Álvaro R.✨ New blog post ✨
Interactive ordering of dired items