Dired

Emacs has a built-in directory editor.

Config

Emacs has some really amazing built-in packages, and dired¹ is one of them. It completly coveres everything you would expect from a file manager, but it's not perfect out of the box.

Current directory

I don't want to press RET twice to navigate to the current directory. There's a way to get around this problem with jump, included in the dired-x package, included with Emacs.

(require 'dired-x)

Reusing the same buffer

By default, dired¹ will create a new buffer each time you press RET over a directory. This leads to unwanted buffers all over the place. Avoid this behaviour with dired-single², reusing the same dired buffer.

Move up a directory with h
Open a single buffer with l

(use-package dired-single
  :config (evil-collection-define-key 'normal 'dired-mode-map
            "h" 'dired-single-up-directory
            "l" 'dired-single-buffer))

Shortcuts

Open a new dired buffer using the jump command with SPC d.

(dotfiles/leader
  "d" '(dired-jump :which-key "Dired"))

Footnotes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dired

https://github.com/crocket/dired-single

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