5.9.3 Dired Usage ¶
Invoke M-x dired to launch Dired. When the point is in the Dired window, invoke C-o (or a binding of your choosing) to launch the Casual Dired menu (casual-dired-tmenu).
Casual Dired organizes its main menu into the following sections:
- File
File-related commands are placed here. Many of the commands in this section will work on marked files. More commands that work on marked files are available in the Bulk section.
Key Label Command Notes o Open Other dired-find-other-window v View dired-view-file C Copy to… dired-do-copy R Rename… dired-do-rename D Delete… dired-do-delete l Link› casual-dired-link-tmenu c Change› casual-dired-change-tmenu y Type dired-show-file-type w Copy Name dired-copy-filename-as-kill ! Shell… dired-do-shell-command & Shell &… dired-do-async-shell-command ; Thumbnail image-dired-dired-toggle-marked-thumbs context-sensitive W Browse browse-url-of-dired-file
- Directory
Directory-related commands. Subdir view commands are also made available in this section. To remove a subdir view, use the command prefix C-u before pressing the binding k to kill a subdir view.
Key Label Command Notes s Sort By› casual-dired-sort-by-tmenu h Hide Details dired-hide-details-mode O Omit Mode dired-omit-mode i Insert Subdir dired-maybe-insert-subdir context-sensitive $ Hide/Unhide Subdir dired-hide-subdir context-sensitive k Kill (Hide) Line(s) dired-do-kill-lines context-sensitive g Revert revert-buffer f Filter by name… casual-dired-find-dired-regexp E Edit (wdired) wdired-change-to-wdired-mode T Thumbnails… image-dired context-sensitive d Dired… dired
- Bulk
Bulk operations on marked or flagged files.
Key Label Command Notes m Mark dired-mark context-sensitive u Unmark dired-unmark context-sensitive U Unmark All dired-unmark-all-marks context-sensitive t Toggle Marks dired-toggle-marks r Regexp› casual-dired-regexp-tmenu # Utils› casual-dired-utils-tmenu ~ Flag Backups dired-flag-backup-files x Delete Flagged dired-do-flagged-delete
- Navigation
Navigation commands to move the point in Dired are offered here.
Key Label Unicode Command Notes ^ .. Dir .. 📁 dired-up-directory p Up File ↑ 📄 dired-previous-line n Down File ↓ 📄 dired-next-line M-[ Up *File ↑ *📄 dired-prev-marked-file context-sensitive M-] Down *File ↓ *📄 dired-next-marked-file context-sensitive M-p Up Dir ↑ 📁 dired-prev-dirline M-n Down Dir ↓ 📁 dired-next-dirline [ Up Subdir ↑ 🗂️ dired-prev-subdir ] Down Subdir ↓ 🗂️ dired-next-subdir j Goto File… → 📄… dired-goto-file M-j Goto Subdir… → 🗂️… dired-goto-subdir
- Quick
Convenience commands for bookmarks and listing buffers are made available in this section.
Key Label Command J Jump to Bookmark… bookmark-jump B Add Bookmark… bookmark-set-no-overwrite b List Buffers ibuffer
- Search
Commands to find a filename via I-Search or to recursively search for pattern inside files contained in a directory tree (
rgrep) are made available here.Key Label Command C-s Filename I-Search… dired-isearch-filenames M-s Filename I-Search Regexp… dired-isearch-filenames-regexp M-f Find in files… rgrep
- New
Create a new file or directory with the commands in this section.
Key Label Command + Directory dired-create-directory F File dired-create-empty-file
Note that some commands in this menu are context-sensitive and will only appear if the context is appropriate. Commands relating to marked files, subdirs, and image thumbnails are context-sensitive.
The sections below detail the different sub-menus in casual-dired-tmenu.