Dired, the default file manager in Emacs

Dired (C-x d) is a file manager in Emacs. My setup has the following features: dual-panes withd dwim (do what I mean), hide/show file attributes, display/hide dot files, all-the-icons theme.

Dual-panes and interactions (dwim copy, move) between the panes.

I am using a convenience elisp function ((dual-dired)) binded to C-c d combo¹.

      (defun dual-dired ()
      "Open 2 dired buffers side by side."
      (interactive)
      (let ((original-window (selected-window)))
        (dired ".") ;; current directory
        (split-window-right)
        (other-window 1)
        (dired ".")
        (select-window original-window)))
    ;; Bind the function to a key combination
    (keymap-global-set "C-c d" 'dual-dired)

Hide/show file properties (M-x dired-hide-details-mode)

By pressing ( key, which is the default .

Hide/show dotfiles

Using a custom C-. binding.

      (setq dired-omit-files "^\\...+$")
      (global-set-key (kbd "C-.") 'dired-omit-mode)

Icons with all-the-icons

Installed all-the-icons-dired package.

      (use-package all-the-icons-dired
        ;; :ensure t
        :config
        (setq all-the-icons-scale-factor 1)
        (setq all-the-icons-dired-monochrome nil)
        :hook
        (dired-mode . all-the-icons-dired-mode)
        )

Excerpt from init.el:

      (use-package dired
        :config
        ;; stop proliferating buffers
        (setq dired-kill-when-opening-new-dired-buffer t)
        ;; default target other window for file operations (copy, move)
        (setq dired-dwim-target t)
        ;; confirm recursive deletion or copy
        ;; 'top means ask every time
        ;; 'always means no asking
        (setq dired-recursive-copies 'top)
        (setq dired-recursive-deletes 'top)
        :hook
        (dired-mode . dired-hide-details-mode) ;;
        (dired.mode . dired-omit-mode) ;; hide dotfiles, etc
        )

C-c d means hold the CONTROL key while typing the character c. Release it, then press character d on your keyboard. ↩