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Emacs’ Dired mode lets you interact with the file system this way. Imagine the output of ‘ls -l’ as an editable document — seeing this in action was one of the
by sandinmyjoints 8y ago
Emacs’ Dired mode lets you interact with the file system this way. Imagine the output of ‘ls -l’ as an editable document — seeing this in action was one of the killer features that made me an Emacs user.
- slrz 8y agoWhat's an Emacs? Running that command just seems to reduce my disk quota. The functionality you're describing sounds pretty much like vidir (from moreutils[1]), though. [1] https://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/ https://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/
- emptysea 8y agoRanger is a similar application that I don’t use enough. http://ranger.github.io http://ranger.github.io
- TeMPOraL 8y ago> What's an Emacs? Running that command just seems to reduce my disk quota. It's an operating system that offer the sanest capabilities for productive work with everything that's primarily textual, or could be made to be primarily textual.
- jhayward 8y agovidir is a low-fidelity imitation of Emacs dired mode. Emacs has had dired since at least the 80's.