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Description
A modern file manager based on dired mode
Latest
dirvish-2.0.53.0.20241208.124326.tar (.sig), 2024-Dec-08, 380 KiB
Maintainer
Alex Lu <https://github.com/alexluigit>
Website
https://github.com/alexluigit/dirvish
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To install this package from Emacs, use package-install or list-packages.

Full description

A polished Dired with batteries included

1. 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.

2. Screenshots

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3. Prerequisites

This package requires GNU ls (gls on macOS), and optionally:

  • fd as a faster alternative to find
  • imagemagick for image preview
  • poppler | pdf-tools for pdf preview
  • ffmpegthumbnailer for video preview
  • mediainfo for audio/video metadata generation
  • tar and unzip for archive files preview

Toggle install instructions

macOS

brew install coreutils fd poppler ffmpegthumbnailer mediainfo imagemagick

Debian-based

apt install fd-find poppler-utils ffmpegthumbnailer mediainfo imagemagick tar unzip

Arch-based

pacman -S fd poppler ffmpegthumbnailer mediainfo imagemagick tar unzip

FreeBSD

pkg install gnuls fd-find poppler ffmpegthumbnailer ImageMagick7 gtar

Windows (untested)

# install via Scoop: https://scoop.sh/
scoop install coreutils fd poppler imagemagick unzip

4. Installation

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)

5. Quickstart

After installation, let Dirvish take over Dired globally: 

(dirvish-override-dired-mode)

  • M-x dirvish RET

    Welcome to Dirvish! Press ? for help.

  • M-x dired | dired-jump | … RET

    Dirvish takes care all of your Dired entries.

  • M-x dirvish-dwim RET

    If the selected window is the only window, open Dirvish, otherwise open Dired.

7. Acknowledgements

This package took inspiration from the terminal file manager ranger and treemacs from Alexander Miller. Some of the extensions was initially a rewrite of packages provided by dired-hacks. These extensions have been greatly enhanced in comparison to the original versions.

Thanks Fox Kiester (@noctuid) for the awesome summary of Dirvish.

Code contributions:

Useful advice and discussions:

The name dirvish is a tribute to vim-dirvish.

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Old versions

dirvish-2.0.53.0.20230519.150010.tar.lz2024-Nov-2982.3 KiB

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1. 2.0.53

1.1. Breaking changes

  • Use simulated dired buffers for parent directory and directory preview

    Prior to V2.0, `dirvish` command would create a ton of dired buffers because `dired-noselect` function were used to generate parent buffers and preview buffers for directory entries. Now these buffers are created internally by dirvish, meaning they'll not showing up as dired/dirvish buffers in your buffer list.

1.2. Changes since 1.9.23

  • core:
    • bind dirvish-dispatch to q
    • add basic perspective.el support
    • allow user to have classic dired header (#96)
    • basic mouse support
    • add dirvish-hide-cursor user option (#119)
    • add dirvish-redisplay-debounce option
  • quick-access:
    • add dirvish-quick-access-function option
  • media:
    • display media properties automatically
  • fd:
    • allow user to select root directory for fd jump (#141)
    • new option for default directory in dirvish-fd-jump (#138)
    • interactive narrowing and orderless support
  • widgets:
    • support mouse click on path header line segment
    • add `dirvish-path-separators` option, closes #142
  • side:
    • auto-expand to buffer file name (#113)
  • extras:
    • add `dirvish-desktop-save-mode` (#133)
    • add `dirvish-copy-remote-path` command, closes #110
  • vc:
    • add `dirvish-vc-menu` prefix
    • add `vc-log` `vc-blame` preview dispatchers
  • subtree:
    • add indent guide
    • make `dirvish-subtree-remove` an interactive function (#105)
    • add subtree-up/clear commands

1.3. Fixes since 1.9.23

  • fix(core): set `dirvish–this` after session rebuild
  • fix(core): avoid unexpected fullscreen session
  • fix(core): disable font-lock-mode in shell preview
  • fix(core): allow wildcard as entry
  • fix(core): do not run dired-mode-hook in parent buffers
  • fix(core): session reuse issue #135 #136
  • fix(core): do not reuse sessions in other frames
  • fix(core): only revert window config when buffer is the current one
  • fix(core): `cursor-type` in `wdired-mode`, closes #132
  • fix(core): use local value of `other-window-scroll-buffer` (#131)
  • fix(core): remove `mod` from `dirvish-audio-exts`, closes #114
  • fix(core): revert buffer upon wdired exit
  • fix(core): inhibit undo-tree when previewing files (#107)
  • fix(core): use hollow cursor for evil normal state in wdired-mode (#104)
  • fix(core): emacs -q -> emacs -Q (#84)
  • fix(core): `window system should be used` warning on terminal (#93)
  • fix(core): escape %-constructs in path mode line segments (#97)
  • fix(core): mode-line not update on Emacs 27 (#93)
  • fix(core): use `start-file-process-shell-command` to print dir
  • fix(core): shell quote filenames for git-msg (#86)
  • fix(side): issues on frame resize update / subtree expansion #140
  • fix(side): show project in header line after project switching
  • fix(tramp): support TRAMP connections with nongnu ls
  • fix(yank): backup existed files instead of new files
  • fix(subtree): revert buffer correctly in emerged buffer
  • fix(subtree): ensure directory name ends with / on TRAMP
  • fix(extras): autoload `dirvish-copy-*`, closes #129
  • fix(extras): add offset when aligning text in TTY sessions (#115)
  • fix(extras): args-out-of-range error on file-size attribute
  • fix(fd): handle systems using `fdfind` by default (#122)
  • fix(fd): improve GNU ls detection (#92)
  • fix(collapse): endless while loop

2. 1.9.23

2.1. Breaking changes

  • Extract dirvish-media from dirvish
    • dirvish-auto-cache-threshold -> dirvish-media-auto-cache-threshold
    • New faces: dirvish-media-info-heading, dirvish-media-info-property-key
    • New command: dirvish-media-properties

2.2. Changes since 1.8.14

  • ls: apply switches to current session on M-RET (#63)
  • narrow: C-g to cancel the narrowing / custom regex builder
  • emerge:
    • Add dirvish-emerge-toggle-current-group command to to toggle the visibility of the group
    • Add dirvish-emerge-group-heading-map, TAB -> dirvish-emerge-toggle-current-group

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