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Transforming Dired File Paths into Org Links
I am of course using org mode for organizing my tasks, notes and other …

Simple Directory and File Creation in Dired
Today I’ll simply delve into two custom functions that I’ve had in …

Adding Disk Usage Reporting to Emacs Dired
Just a quick one today. One of the great strengths of Emacs is its …

Efficient File Searching in Emacs: Leveraging completing-read with Customizable Methods
I thought I would share a little bit of elisp that I’ve been using for a …

Sending Dired Directories to Meld for Directory Comparison
A common activity for a Software Engineer is to compare two directories, …

Emacs asynchronous copying using dired-async-mode
For a while now I’ve been using an rsync
based dired-copy
replacement for …

More Improvements to Dired Duplicate Here
On a previous post I created an elisp function to quickly duplicate a file or …

Recursively Listing Files in Size Order using find-name-dired
For a while now I have been looking for a simple method in emacs for trimming …

Opening Files Externally from dired
I have been using C-RET
or W
in dired
for a while now to open a file externally …

Shrinking Media With The Help Of Emacs
Often I find myself refining my collection of photos and family videos, usually …

Dired Duplicate Here Revisited
It is not uncommon for me to want the ability to quickly duplicate a file, …

Revisiting Window Cut / Copy Files with DWIM
I previously wrote about wanting the ability in emacs to copy and paste files …

Cut / Copy between Windows using Dired Buffers
The next step in my emacs journey is to move files around a little more easily, …