| Like you, I've been using emacs (gnu) for decades, and dired is my directory/file manipulation tool, for both linux and windows. I never see a desktop with files/folders or anything like that, it's dired for everything. For example: Just a few minutes ago, in a directory with lots of PDFs, I did: - wdired to rename pdfs to a consistent convention. Did this with the awesome multiple-cursors package, then interactively spell-checked and corrected my renamed pdfs. All within writeable dired :-) - delete several non-pdf files - mark several possible duplicate files and dired-do-shell-command with sha512sum - move several pdfs to another directory
(split window and open target dir, mark files to move, one-button move using dired-dwim-target. - mark several pdfs and open with reader app Obviously that's all do-able with a shell or traditional file manager GUI, but dired was a total win here. Multiply that win by a hundred times per week, and that's a quality of life enhancement. |
Aha! That's what's been missing in my life! Thank you.