Dired Mode in Emacs

• Start up Dired mode: C-x d; (List dirs: C-x C-d)

• Hide Dired mode window: q;

Mark

• Mark (for group manipulation): [n]m;

• Mark with regex: %m;

• Mark files whose contents match regular expression (like mark with grep): %g

• Mark all directories: */;

• Mark all executables: **;

• Toggle marked files/directories (same as inverse selection): t;

• Unmark marked files: [n]u;

• Unmark all marked files: U

Navigate

• Move cursor to previous folder: <; next foler: >;

• Up one level: ^;

• add file list of the subfolder on cursor at the end of the buffer: i;

** Jump to parent folder: C-M-p (jump to children folder is C-M-d, which is conflict with "Show desktop" shortcut of Mint);

** Jump to previous/next folder: C-M-p/C-M-n;

Manipulation

• Copy: [n]C;

• Delete: [n]d; delete with regex: %d;

• Execute: x;

• Create directory: +

• Change mode (same as "chmod" command): M

• Show file information (same as "file" command): y

• Move or Rename: R;

** Use m then %u to rename file to upper case, while %l to lower case;

** move or rename with regex: %R;

• View file: v (With Evil, if you want to quit reading file (v key) in Dired mode, use Q instead of q, because q is looked as the macro define key in Evil);

• Run command on a file: mark it (with "m" key) and !; In command , "*" means all marked files, "?" means execute command on files marked respectively;

• Compress files: mark files/directories, then "! zip file.zip *"; then use "g" to update display;

• Compress/Uncompress one or more files to gz (orgin files will be replaced): Z;

• Query-replace in selected files: mark files, then "Q";

• Open file in another window (and focus that window): o;

• Open file in another window (keep focus in Dired window): C-o;

• Change ownership (same as "chown"): O;

Miscellaneous