Homepage: https://github.com/jave/fsdired
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Sort files to go to different places in dired
Mark files and move them to different places with the help of dired.
Use it, for instance, if you have a lot random files in a directory,
and would like to move them to different places, on some criteria
that you know, but not your computer. For instance, mark all comic
book archive files with "1" and all text-files about motherboards
with "2" and all text-files about dinosaurs with "3". Noodle about
with this for a while, reviewing your marks, discovering new types
of files in your disorganized random dir, and finally press "c-c" to
pop-up a buffer where you decide where the files go. When decided,
press c-c and the files go there!
More precise insructions:
- use "fsdired-change-to-fsdired-mode" to start, in a dired buffer
- use numeric keys 0-9 to tag files in different groups
- use C-c [0-9] to review your marks
- use g to restore the view
- use c-c c-c to end. this will:
- switch back the marks buffer to dired mode
- popup a command buffer where you can decide what to do with each group
there is a line for each group looking like:
"1M /tmp", where 1 corresponds to a mark, M is a command, and /tmp an argument for the command
commands(yeah only one for now):
M - move
- c-i inserts a file name at point, which is convenient with ido mode, for instance
Issues: and ideas
- must the cmd buffer end with newline?
- if there are no marks for a certain char in the cmd buffer, default will be the file the cursor is on...
(dired-get-marked-files)
- 1st line could indicate which dired buffer the command buffer is associated with by default
- processing dired commands is kind of the same as "x" for expunge...
- currently nearly no error checking is done!
- ought to handle invalid format of the command buffer
- ought to handle missing command character definitions
- ought to report no matching command line in the command buffer for a mark
- some convenience functions to build the command buffer:
- command to fill with sane defaults(consider though that we might want to reuse command buffers)
- hide-lines.el is used when reviewing marks. would be
better to find some std (cvs) Emacs facility
- dont crash when destination exists
- prompt for directory creation, if desired destionation doesnt exist
- dont crash when "." is somewhere, mark or destinarion
- before commiting command buffer, see to it that lines arent hidden
- possibly hide/show lines automatically in dired buffer when moving in command buffer
- the keymap set/restore mechanism seem to discard user customizations, why?
- "0M path" should be same as "0 M path"
- better information when moving to a directory that already exists
DONE
- the rename M is odd when the dir to move to doesnt exist(should ask to mk dir)
- facility to enter a directory path conveniently
- add possibility to add kbd bindings directly to dired kbd map
- c-1 etc dosn no longer work?
fsdired has only been tested on CVS Emacs 22.
thanks to:
Andrew M. Scott