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Emacs: file and Dired basics
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Video overview of file navigation in Emacs. There are lots of powerful commands to find files, open directories, and perform operations on the contents of the filesystem. Technically, I talk about find-file , dired and its numerous accoutrements, the minibuffer and its histories, file permissions, keyboard macros, and projects. Same basic configurations based on what I mentioned in the video: ;; Install the `vertico' package to get a vertical view of the ;; minibuffer. Vertico is optimised for performance and is also ;; highly configurable. Here is my minimal setup: (setq vertico-resize nil) (vertico-mode 1) ;; Install the `marginalia' package. This will display useful ;; annotations next to entries in the minibuffer. For example, when ;; using M-x it will show a brief description of the command as well ;; as the keybinding associated with it (if any). (marginalia-mode 1) ;; When you first call `find-file' (C-x C-f by default), you do not ;; need to clear the existing file path before adding the new one. ;; Just start typing the whole path and Emacs will "shadow" the ;; current one. For example, you are at ~/Documents/notes/file.txt ;; and you want to go to ~/.emacs.d/init.el: type…
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Protesilaos Stavrou
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