Emacs has a powerful file browser built in. I’ll introduce some of the things it can do here, and come back to this topic in future tips.
Use C-x d
to enter dired mode (emacs’ file browser), and give the path of a directory to open.
To move the cursor around you can use the arrow keys. Of course you can use emacs’ usual tricks for moving around the buffer – e.g. C-s
to search for a file name, or to jump to a particular file in dired, use j
and then enter the name of the file or directory, and the cursor will jump to that point. You can also use >
and <
to move to the next or previous sub directory. Hitting ^
moves you up a level in the directory tree.
To open a file, move the cursor to the line containing a file and hit enter.
To create a new subdirectory, hit +
, and to create a new file in the directory, just use C-x C-f
as normal.
Hitting s
will change the sorting of the directory listing between name and date.
g
refreshes the view.