5.6.3 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. Most of the commands will also operate on marked files (see Mark item below).
- Directory
Directory-related commands. Subdir view commands are also made available in this section. To remove a subdir view, use the prefix C-u before pressing the binding k to kill a subdir view.
- Mark
Marking operations are available here. Commands in the “# Utils›” sub-menu can be used to operate on marked items. In addition, many commands from the File section can be operate on marked items.
The “r Regexp›” sub-menu provides commands to mark via regular expression.
- Navigation
Navigation commands to move the point in Dired are offered here.
- Quick
Convenience commands for bookmarks and listing buffers are made available in this section.
- 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.- New
Create a new file or directory with the commands in this section.