Dired Extra

This documents the “extra” features for GNU Emacs’s Dired Mode that are provided by the file dired-x.el.

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Table of Contents


1 Introduction

This documents some extra features for GNU Emacs’s Dired Mode that are provided by dired-x.el (derived from Sebastian Kremer’s original dired-x.el).


1.1 Features

Some features provided by Dired Extra:

  1. Omitting uninteresting files from Dired listing (see Omitting Files in Dired).
  2. Guessing shell commands in Dired buffers (see Shell Command Guessing).
  3. Running Dired command in non-Dired buffers (see Virtual Dired).
  4. Finding a file mentioned in a buffer (see Find File At Point).
  5. Commands using file marking (see Advanced Mark Commands).

dired-x.el binds some functions to keys in Dired Mode (see Key Index). Optionally, it also binds C-x C-f and C-x 4 C-f to dired-x-find-file and dired-x-find-file-other-window, respectively (see Find File At Point).


1.2 Technical Details

When dired-x.el is loaded, some standard Dired functions from dired.el and dired-aux.el offer additional features. dired-add-entry obeys Dired Omit mode (see Omitting Files in Dired), if it is active. dired-find-buffer-nocreate and dired-initial-position respect the value of dired-find-subdir (see Miscellaneous Commands). dired-clean-up-after-deletion respects the value of dired-clean-up-buffers-too. dired-read-shell-command uses dired-guess-shell-command (see Shell Command Guessing) to offer a smarter default command.


2 Installation

This manual describes the Dired features provided by the file dired-x.el. To take advantage of these features, you must load the file and (optionally) set some variables.

In your ~/.emacs file, or in the system-wide initialization file default.el in the site-lisp directory, put

(with-eval-after-load 'dired
  (require 'dired-x)
  ;; Set dired-x global variables here.  For example:
  ;; (setq dired-guess-shell-gnutar "gtar")
  ;; (setq dired-x-hands-off-my-keys nil)
  ))
(add-hook 'dired-mode-hook
          (lambda ()
            ;; Set dired-x buffer-local variables here.  For example:
            ;; (dired-omit-mode 1)
            ))

This will load dired-x.el when Dired is first invoked (for example, when you first type C-x d).


2.1 Optional Installation File At Point

If you choose to have dired-x.el bind dired-x-find-file over find-file (see Find File At Point), then you will need to set dired-x-hands-off-my-keys. To do this, either set it before dired-x.el is loaded, or use M-x customize-variable, or call dired-x-bind-find-file after changing the value.

(with-eval-after-load 'dired
  ;; Bind dired-x-find-file.
  (setq dired-x-hands-off-my-keys nil)
  (require 'dired-x))

3 Omitting Files in Dired

Omitting a file means removing it from the directory listing. Omitting is useful for keeping Dired buffers free of “uninteresting” files (for instance, auto-save, auxiliary, backup, and revision control files) so that the user can concentrate on the interesting files. Like hidden files, omitted files are never seen by Dired. Omitting differs from hiding in several respects:

C-x M-o

(dired-omit-mode) Toggle between displaying and omitting “uninteresting” files.

* O

(dired-mark-omitted) Mark “uninteresting” files.

In order to make Dired Omit work you need to load dired-x after loading dired (see Installation) and then evaluate (dired-omit-mode 1) in some way (see Omitting Variables).


3.1 Omitting Variables

The following variables can be used to customize omitting.

Variable: dired-omit-mode

If non-nil, “uninteresting” files are not listed. The default is nil. Uninteresting files are files whose names match regexp dired-omit-files, plus files whose names end with extension in dired-omit-extensions. C-x M-o (dired-omit-mode) toggles its value, which is buffer-local. Put

(dired-omit-mode 1)

inside your dired-mode-hook to have omitting initially turned on in every Dired buffer (see Installation). You can then use C-x M-o to unomit in that buffer.

To enable omitting automatically only in certain directories you can add a directory local setting (see Directory Variables in The GNU Emacs manual) for Dired mode

((dired-mode . ((dired-omit-mode . t))))

to a .dir-locals.el file in that directory. You can use the command add-dir-local-variable to do this.

Variable: dired-omit-files

This buffer-local variable’s value is a regexp, a string. Files whose names match this regexp will not be displayed. This only has effect when dired-omit-mode’s value is t.

The default value omits the special directories . and .. and autosave files (plus other files ending in .) (see Examples of Omitting Various File Types).

Variable: dired-omit-extensions

If non-nil, this variable’s value is a list of extensions (strings) to omit from Dired listings. Its format is the same as that of completion-ignored-extensions. The default value is the elements of completion-ignored-extensions, dired-latex-unclean-extensions, dired-bibtex-unclean-extensions and dired-texinfo-unclean-extensions.

Variable: dired-omit-case-fold

Default: filesystem This variable controls whether file-name matching is case-insensitive. By default, when dired-omit-case-fold is set to filesystem, dired-omit-mode will match filenames and extensions case-sensitively on Dired buffers visiting case-sensitive filesystems, and case-insensitively on case-insensitive filesystems. Set it to nil to be always case-sensitive, and to t to be always case-insensitive.

Variable: dired-omit-localp

This variable determines the localp argument dired-omit-expunge passes to dired-get-filename. If it is no-dir, the default, omitting is much faster, but you can only match against the non-directory part of the file name. Set it to nil if you need to match the whole file name or t to match the file name relative to the buffer’s top-level directory.

Variable: dired-omit-marker-char

Temporary marker used by Dired to implement omitting. Should never be used as marker by the user or other packages. There is one exception to this rule: by adding

(setq dired-mark-keys "\C-o")
;; i.e., the value of dired-omit-marker-char
;; (which is not defined yet)

to your ~/.emacs, you can bind the C-o key to insert a C-o marker, thus causing these files to be omitted in addition to the usually omitted files. Unfortunately the files you omitted manually this way will show up again after reverting the buffer, unlike the others. The default value is C-o.


3.2 Examples of Omitting Various File Types

  • If you wish to avoid seeing RCS files and the RCS directory, then use
    (setq dired-omit-files
          (concat dired-omit-files "\\|^RCS$\\|,v$"))
    

    after loading dired-x (see Installation). This assumes dired-omit-localp has its default value of no-dir to make the ^-anchored matches work. As a slower alternative, with dired-omit-localp set to nil, you can use / instead of ^ in the regexp.

  • If you use tib, the bibliography program for use with TeX and LaTeX, and you want to omit the INDEX and the *-t.tex files, then use
    (setq dired-omit-files
          (concat dired-omit-files "\\|^INDEX$\\|-t\\.tex$"))
    

    after loading dired-x (see Installation).

  • If you do not wish to see ‘dot’ files (files starting with a .), then use
    (setq dired-omit-files
          (concat dired-omit-files "\\|^\\..+$"))
    

    after loading dired-x (see Installation). (Of course, a better way to achieve this particular goal is simply to omit ‘-a’ from dired-listing-switches.)


3.3 Some Technical Details of Omitting

Loading dired-x.el will install Dired Omit by putting dired-omit-expunge on your dired-after-readin-hook, and will call dired-extra-startup, which in turn calls dired-omit-startup in your dired-mode-hook.


4 Shell Command Guessing

Based upon the name of a file, Dired tries to guess what shell command you might want to apply to it. For example, if you have point on a file named foo.tar and you press !, Dired will guess you want to ‘tar xvf’ it and suggest that as the default shell command.

The default is mentioned in brackets and you can type M-n to get the default into the minibuffer and then edit it, e.g., to change ‘tar xvf’ to ‘tar tvf’. If there are several commands for a given file, e.g., ‘xtex’ and ‘dvips’ for a .dvi file, you can type M-n several times to see each of the matching commands.

Dired only tries to guess a command for a single file, never for a list of marked files.

The following variables control guessing of shell commands:

Variable: dired-guess-shell-alist-default

This variable specifies the predefined rules for guessing shell commands suitable for certain files. Set this to nil to turn guessing off. The elements of dired-guess-shell-alist-user (defined by the user) will override these rules.

Variable: dired-guess-shell-alist-user

If non-nil, this variables specifies the user-defined alist of file regexps and their suggested commands. These rules take precedence over the predefined rules in the variable dired-guess-shell-alist-default (to which they are prepended) when dired-do-shell-command is run). The default is nil.

Each element of the alist looks like

(regexp command…)

where each command can either be a string or a Lisp expression that evaluates to a string. If several commands are given, all of them will temporarily be pushed onto the history.

A ‘*’ in the shell command stands for the file name that matched regexp. When Emacs invokes the command, it replaces each instance of ‘*’ with the matched file name.

You can set this variable in your ~/.emacs. For example, to add rules for ‘.foo’ and ‘.bar’ file extensions, write

(setq dired-guess-shell-alist-user
      (list
       (list "\\.foo$" "foo-command");; fixed rule
       ;; possibly more rules...
       (list "\\.bar$";; rule with condition test
              '(if condition
                   "bar-command-1"
                 "bar-command-2"))))

This will override any predefined rules for the same extensions.

Variable: dired-guess-shell-case-fold-search

If this variable is non-nil, dired-guess-shell-alist-default and dired-guess-shell-alist-user are matched case-insensitively. The default is t.

Variable: dired-guess-shell-gnutar

If this variable is non-nil, it specifies the name of the GNU Tar executable (e.g., tar or gnutar). GNU Tar’s ‘z’ switch is used for compressed archives. If you don’t have GNU Tar, set this to nil: a pipe using zcat is then used instead. The default is nil.

Variable: dired-guess-shell-gzip-quiet

A non-nil value of this variable means that ‘-q’ is passed to gzip, possibly overriding a verbose option in the GZIP environment variable. The default is t.

Variable: dired-guess-shell-znew-switches nil

This variable specifies a string of switches passed to znew. An example is ‘-K’ which will make znew keep a .Z file when it is smaller than the .gz file. The default is nil: no additional switches are passed to znew.

Variable: dired-shell-command-history nil

This variable holds the history list for commands that read dired-shell commands.


5 Virtual Dired

Using Virtual Dired means putting a buffer with Dired-like contents in Dired mode. The files described by the buffer contents need not actually exist. This is useful if you want to peruse an ‘ls -lR’ output file, for example one you got from an FTP server. You can use all motion commands usually available in Dired. You can also use it to save a Dired buffer in a file and resume it in a later session.

Type M-x dired-virtual to put the current buffer into virtual Dired mode. You will be prompted for the top level directory of this buffer, with a default value guessed from the buffer contents. To convert the virtual to a real Dired buffer again, type g (which calls dired-virtual-revert) in the virtual Dired buffer and answer ‘y’. You don’t have to do this, though: you can relist single subdirectories using l (dired-do-redisplay) on the subdirectory headerline, leaving the buffer in virtual Dired mode all the time.

The function ‘dired-virtual-mode’ is specially designed to turn on virtual Dired mode from the auto-mode-alist. To edit all *.dired files automatically in virtual Dired mode, put this into your ~/.emacs:

(setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("[^/]\\.dired$" . dired-virtual-mode)
                              auto-mode-alist))

The regexp is a bit more complicated than usual to exclude .dired local-variable files.


6 Advanced Mark Commands

F

(dired-do-find-marked-files) Find all marked files at once displaying them simultaneously. If optional noselect is non-nil then just find the files but do not select. If you want to keep the Dired buffer displayed, type C-x 2 first. If you want just the marked files displayed and nothing else, type C-x 1 first.

The current window is split across all files marked, as evenly as possible. Remaining lines go to the bottom-most window. The number of files that can be displayed this way is restricted by the height of the current window and the variable window-min-height.

dired-mark-extension

Mark all files with a certain extension for use in later commands. A ‘.’ is automatically prepended to the string entered when not present. If invoked with prefix argument C-u, this command unmarks files instead. If called with the C-u C-u prefix, asks for a character to use as the marker, and marks files with it.

When called from Lisp, extension may also be a list of extensions and an optional argument marker-char specifies the marker used.

dired-mark-suffix

Mark all files with a certain suffix for use in later commands. A ‘.’ is not automatically prepended to the string entered, you must type it explicitly. This is different from dired-mark-extension which prepends a ‘.’ if not present. If invoked with prefix argument C-u, this command unmarks files instead. If called with the C-u C-u prefix, asks for a character to use as the marker, and marks files with it.

When called from Lisp, suffix may also be a list of suffixes and an optional argument marker-char specifies the marker used.

dired-flag-extension

Flag all files with a certain extension for deletion. A ‘.’ is not automatically prepended to the string entered.


6.1 Advanced Cleaning Functions

dired-clean-patch

Flag dispensable files created by the ‘patch’ program for deletion. See variable dired-patch-unclean-extensions.

dired-clean-tex

Flag dispensable files created by TeX, LaTeX, and ‘texinfo’ for deletion. See the following variables (see Advanced Cleaning Variables):

  • dired-tex-unclean-extensions
  • dired-texinfo-unclean-extensions
  • dired-latex-unclean-extensions
  • dired-bibtex-unclean-extensions
dired-very-clean-tex

Flag dispensable files created by TeX, LaTeX, ‘texinfo’, and *.dvi files for deletion.


6.2 Advanced Cleaning Variables

Variables used by the above cleaning commands (and in the default value for variable dired-omit-extensions, see Omitting Variables):

Variable: dired-patch-unclean-extensions

This variable specifies the list of extensions of dispensable files created by the ‘patch’ program. The default is (".rej" ".orig").

Variable: dired-tex-unclean-extensions

This variable specifies the list of extensions of dispensable files created by TeX. The default is (".toc" ".log" ".aux").

Variable: dired-texinfo-unclean-extensions

This variable holds the list of extensions of dispensable files created by ‘texinfo’. The default is (".cp" ".cps" ".fn" ".fns" ".ky" ".kys" ".pg" ".pgs" ".tp" ".tps" ".vr" ".vrs")

Variable: dired-latex-unclean-extensions

This variable specifies the list of extensions of dispensable files created by LaTeX. The default is (".idx" ".lof" ".lot" ".glo").

Variable: dired-bibtex-unclean-extensions

This variable specifies the list of extensions of dispensable files created by BibTeX. The default is (".blg" ".bbl").


6.3 Special Marking Function

M-(

Mark files for which predicate returns non-nil (dired-mark-sexp). With a prefix argument, unflag those files instead.

The predicate is a Lisp expression that can refer to the following symbols:

inode

[integer] the inode of the file (only for ‘ls -i’ output)

s

[integer] the size of the file for ‘ls -s’ output (usually in blocks or, with ‘-k’, in KBytes)

mode

[string] file permission bits, e.g., ‘-rw-r--r--

nlink

[integer] number of links to file

uid

[string] owner

gid

[string] group (If the gid is not displayed by ‘ls’, this will still be set (to the same as uid))

size

[integer] file size in bytes

time

[string] the time that ‘ls’ displays, e.g., ‘Feb 12 14:17

name

[string] the name of the file

sym

[string] if file is a symbolic link, the linked-to name, else ""

For example, use

(equal 0 size)

to mark all zero length files.

To find out all not yet compiled Emacs Lisp files in a directory, Dired all .el files in the lisp directory using the wildcard ‘*.el’. Then use M-( with

(not (file-exists-p (concat name "c")))

to mark all .el files without a corresponding .elc file.


7 Multiple Dired Directories and Non-Dired Commands

An Emacs buffer can have but one working directory, stored in the buffer-local variable default-directory. A Dired buffer may have several subdirectories inserted, but it still has only one working directory: that of the top-level Dired directory in that buffer. For some commands it is appropriate that they use the current Dired directory instead of default-directory, e.g., find-file and compile.

The command dired-smart-shell-command, bound to M-! in Dired buffers, is like shell-command, but it runs with default-directory bound to the current Dired directory.


8 Find File At Point

dired-x provides a method of visiting or editing a file mentioned in the buffer you are viewing (e.g., a mail buffer, a news article, a README file, etc.) or to test if that file exists. You can then modify this in the minibuffer after snatching the file name.

When installed dired-x will substitute dired-x-find-file for find-file (normally bound to C-x C-f) and dired-x-find-file-other-window for find-file-other-window (normally bound to C-x 4 C-f).

In order to use this feature, you will need to set dired-x-hands-off-my-keys to nil before loading dired-x (see Optional Installation File At Point).

dired-x-find-file

dired-x-find-file behaves exactly like find-file (normally bound to C-x C-f) unless a prefix argument is passed to the function in which case it will use the file name at point as a guess for the file to visit.

For example, if the buffer you were reading contained the words

Available via anonymous ftp in

   /roebling.poly.edu:/pub/lisp/crypt++.el.gz

then you could move your cursor to the line containing the ftp address and type C-u C-x C-f (the C-u is a universal argument). The minibuffer would read

Find file: /roebling.poly.edu:/pub/lisp/crypt++.el.gz

with the point after the last /. If you hit RET, emacs will visit the file at that address. This also works with files on your own computer.

dired-x-find-file-other-window

dired-x-find-file-other-window behaves exactly like find-file-other-window (normally bound to C-x 4 C-f) unless a prefix argument is used. See dired-x-find-file for more information.

dired-x-hands-off-my-keys

If set to t, then it means that dired-x should not bind dired-x-find-file over find-file on keyboard. Similarly, it should not bind dired-x-find-file-other-window over find-file-other-window. If you change this variable after dired-x.el is loaded then do M-x dired-x-bind-find-file. The default value of this variable is t; by default, the binding is not done. See Optional Installation File At Point.

dired-x-bind-find-file

A function, which can be called interactively or in your ~/.emacs file, that uses the value of dired-x-hands-off-my-keys to determine if dired-x-find-file should be bound over find-file and dired-x-find-file-other-window bound over find-file-other-window. See Optional Installation File At Point.


9 Miscellaneous Commands

Miscellaneous features not fitting anywhere else:

dired-find-subdir

Default: nil

If non-nil, Dired does not make a new buffer for a directory if it can be found (perhaps as subdirectory) in some existing Dired buffer.

If there are several Dired buffers for a directory, the most recently used is chosen.

Dired avoids switching to the current buffer, so that if you have a normal and a wildcard buffer for the same directory, C-x d RET will toggle between those two.

M-G

(dired-goto-subdir) Go to the header line of an inserted directory. This command reads its argument, with completion derived from the names of the inserted subdirectories.

dired-vm

Bound to V if dired-bind-vm is t. Run VM on this file (assumed to be a UNIX mail folder).

If you give this command a prefix argument, it will visit the folder read-only.

If the variable dired-vm-read-only-folders is t, dired-vm will visit all folders read-only. If it is neither nil nor t, e.g., the symbol if-file-read-only, only files not writable by you are visited read-only.

If the variable dired-bind-vm is t, dired-vm will be bound to V. Otherwise, dired-bind-rmail will be bound.

dired-rmail

Bound to V if dired-bind-vm is nil. Run Rmail on this file (assumed to be mail folder in Rmail format).

dired-info

Bound to I. Run Info on this file (assumed to be a file in Info format).

If the variable dired-bind-info is nil, dired-info will not be bound to I.

dired-man

Bound to N. Run man on this file (assumed to be a file in nroff format).

If the variable dired-bind-man is nil, dired-man will not be bound to N.

Bound to Y. Relative symlink all marked (or next ARG) files into a directory, or make a relative symbolic link to the current file. This creates relative symbolic links like

    foo -> ../bar/foo

not absolute ones like

    foo -> /ugly/path/that/may/change/any/day/bar/foo
dired-do-relsymlink-regexp

Bound to %Y. Relative symlink all marked files containing regexp to newname. See functions dired-do-rename-regexp and dired-do-relsymlink for more info.


10 Bugs

If you encounter a bug in this package, or wish to suggest an enhancement, then please use M-x report-emacs-bug to report it.


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Concept Index

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Index Entry  Section

B
binding dired-x-find-file: Optional Installation File At Point
bugs: Bugs

C
customizing file omitting: Omitting Variables

D
dired-aux.el: Technical Details
Dired-x features: Features
dot files, how to omit them in Dired: Omitting Examples

F
finding a file at point: Find File At Point

G
guessing shell commands for files.: Shell Command Guessing
gzip: Shell Command Guessing

H
how to make omitting the default in Dired: Omitting Variables

L
lisp expression, marking files with in Dired: Special Marking Function
ls listings, how to peruse them in Dired: Virtual Dired

M
mark file by Lisp expression: Special Marking Function
modified functions: Technical Details
multiple Dired directories: Multiple Dired Directories

O
omitting additional files: Omitting Variables
omitting dot files in Dired: Omitting Examples
omitting Files in Dired: Omitting Files in Dired
omitting RCS files in Dired: Omitting Examples
omitting tib files in Dired: Omitting Examples

P
passing GNU Tar its ‘z’ switch.: Shell Command Guessing
perusing ls listings: Virtual Dired

R
RCS files, how to omit them in Dired: Omitting Examples
reading mail.: Miscellaneous Commands
reading mail.: Miscellaneous Commands
relative symbolic links.: Miscellaneous Commands
running info.: Miscellaneous Commands
running man.: Miscellaneous Commands

S
simultaneous visiting of several files: Advanced Mark Commands

T
tib files, how to omit them in Dired: Omitting Examples

U
uninteresting files: Omitting Files in Dired

V
virtual Dired: Virtual Dired
visiting a file mentioned in a buffer: Find File At Point
visiting several files at once: Advanced Mark Commands

W
working directory: Multiple Dired Directories

Z
znew: Shell Command Guessing


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Key Index


Variable Index