My Emacs configuration (Dired)

05 Jul 2026 emacs it Table of Contents Preamble Calling the Dired File operations Powerful rename Copy/move files like in mc (or Far) Search for something find-name-dired find-grep-dired External programs Dired and photos/images Emacs-specific things Configuration overview Keybindings Hooks Dired-related variables Faces customization Download Notes This blog post is a part of the series of posts about my Emacs configuration. Previous posts: My Emacs configuration (common parts) Why and how I ditched use-package? Here I will be dedicated to the configuration, and my habits, and usual actions during the Dired usage. I decided not to just describe configuration and that's all — you could read a lot of likewise blogposts already. Instead of it I also would like to describe how I am using Dired every day. Little explanation about Dired for readers, who didn't use it before. It is a program for Emacs which works as a powerful file browser, which treats your precious files and directories as…