Emacs Learn(2)

File Management in Emacs(Reference to http://xahlee.org/ )

General Info

The keyboard shortcut “Ctrl+x d” calls the command “dired”. “dired” is abbreviation for Directory Edit.


Here's a list of the most commonly used keystrokes within dired:

keystroke	purpose
+	create a dir
R	rename file
C	copy file
D	delete file
Z	compress/decompress the file
m	mark a file
u	unmark a file
U	unmark all
%m	mark by regex
g	update dir listing

“dired” is often used in combination with “Alt+!” (shell-command). For example, suppose you downloaded a program and is going thru the install process of unzip, untar, configure, make, sudo make install. You can either run these command inside a emacs shell with “Alt+x shell”, or you can just execute them one at a time with “Alt+!”. (which method to use is a matter of preference)