Table Of Contents

• Dired Actions
  • Installation
    • Use Package VC
    • Quelpa Use Package
  • Functions
  • Hooks

Dired Actions

dired-actions allows you to preform various actions such as copy/pasting, moving, and symlinking files/dirs between Dired buffers.

dired async is automatically supported when installed.

Installation

Use Package VC

(use-package dired-actions
  :vc (dired-actions :url "https://github.com/justinlime/dired-actions.el")
  :bind (("M-o y" . dired-actions-copy)
         ("M-o p" . dired-actions-paste)
         ("M-o m" . dired-actions-move)
         ("M-o s" . dired-actions-symlink)
         ("M-o l" . dired-actions-symlink-relative)))

Quelpa Use Package

(use-package dired-actions
  :quelpa (dired-actions :fetcher github :repo "justinlime/dired-actions.el")
  :bind (("M-o y" . dired-actions-copy)
         ("M-o p" . dired-actions-paste)
         ("M-o m" . dired-actions-move)
         ("M-o s" . dired-actions-symlink)
         ("M-o l" . dired-actions-symlink-relative)))

Functions

Dired Actions provides the following functions for use:

dired-actions-copy

Copy marked file/s (or current file under cursor) to the file ring

dired-actions-move

Move the file/s from the file ring to the current directory.

dired-actions-paste

Paste the file/s from the file ring to the current directory.

dired-actions-symlink

Create a symlink for the the file/s from the file ring to the current directory.

dired-actions-symlink-relative

Create a relative symlink for the the file/s from the file ring to the current directory.

Hooks

Dired Actions provides the following hooks for use:

dired-actions-post-action-hook

A hook that is run after performing an action (excluding copy).

dired-actions-post-copy-hook

A hook that is run after copying files to file ring.