A polished Dired with batteries included
Introduction
The experience of dirvish is surreal and even bizarre after all these years of trying to use dired. Like how professionals make their craft look easy, dirvish does something similar with how it builds on dired. Dirvish is paradoxical in that it provides a completely different experience while still fundamentally being dired at its core.
– @noctuid (source)
Dirvish is an improved version of the Emacs inbuilt package Dired. It not only gives Dired an appealing and highly customizable user interface, but also comes together with almost all possible parts required for full usability as a modern file manager.
Prerequisites
This package requires GNU ls (gls on some OSs).
Optionally, imagemagick for image preview, fd as a faster alternative to find, etc.
macOS
brew install coreutils fd poppler ffmpegthumbnailer mediainfo imagemagick gnu-tar unzipUbuntu (and other Debian-based distros)
apt install fd-find poppler-utils ffmpegthumbnailer mediainfo imagemagick tar unzipArch Linux
pacman -S fd poppler ffmpegthumbnailer mediainfo imagemagick tar unzipFreeBSD
pkg install gnuls fd-find poppler ffmpegthumbnailer ImageMagick7 gtar unzipWindows (untested)
# install via Scoop: https://scoop.sh/
scoop install coreutils fd poppler imagemagick unzipInstallation
Dirvish is available on Melpa. Just type M-x package-install RET dirvish RET
into Emacs 27.1+. el-get users can get the recipe from here.
For straight.el users, it is simply:
(straight-use-package 'dirvish)Quickstart
After installation, let Dirvish take over Dired globally:
(dirvish-override-dired-mode)M-x dirvish RETWelcome to Dirvish! Press
?for help.M-x dired RET(C-x d) |M-x dired-jump RET(C-x C-j) | …Dirvish takes care all of your Dired entries.
Resources
Acknowledgements
Thanks Fox Kiester (@noctuid) for the awesome summary of Dirvish.
The name dirvish is a tribute to vim-dirvish.
