What!? No emacs?

Story: 10 Best Orthodox Free Linux File ManagersTotal Replies: 13
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notbob

Jun 01, 2012
9:35 AM EDT
It's a gol'durn travesty, is what it is, not including dired, the file manager in emacs. I've yet to find something I can't do from emacs' dired mode and when I do, it's usually cuz I haven't learned how, yet. Best file manager since XTree.

nb
Bob_Robertson

Jun 01, 2012
9:46 AM EDT
Very true. Emacs does everything.

Even the word "Orthodox" would work, since the GUI is obviously "Reformed".
Bob_Robertson

Jun 01, 2012
9:46 AM EDT
No Konqueror, either.
jacog

Jun 01, 2012
9:50 AM EDT
Bob - I don't think konqueror's split-pane mode counts as an orthodox file manager.
BernardSwiss

Jun 01, 2012
10:27 AM EDT
I thought split-panel file managers such as Norton Commander/Midnight Commander are the "orthodox" file managers.-- I am shocked, truely shocked that a Linux-oriented rag ;-) would imply otherwise!

Please to cancel my subscription, forthwith.



(edit: though hardly conclusive, I see that Wikipedia supports my (ahem) orthodox position...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_manager )
Bob_Robertson

Jun 01, 2012
11:30 AM EDT
Jacog,

There's a split-screen mode?

(BTW, humor. Haha.)
vainrveenr

Jul 11, 2012
11:29 AM EDT
Quoting:I've yet to find something I can't do from emacs' dired mode and when I do, it's usually cuz I haven't learned how, yet. Best file manager since XTree.


The FSF's 'GNU Emacs' site is http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/, the GNU Emacs Manual's 'Dired' section is found at https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Dired.html, and the EmacsWiki describing the 'Dired Plus' extension to Dired is found at http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DiredPlus

Note from the first link that that the current stable release of Emacs is 24.1



Steven_Rosenber

Jul 11, 2012
1:49 PM EDT
There's so much competition from the non-free file managers in Linux, we really need to give the free ones some love ...
caitlyn

Jul 11, 2012
1:52 PM EDT
Some people might not see your invisible dripping sarcasm tags, Steven_Rosenberg :)
cr

Jul 11, 2012
2:15 PM EDT
Ytree here. I use it constantly.
escherdragon

Jul 25, 2012
12:06 PM EDT
There is also the Sunrise Commander, for GNU Emacs:

* http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Sunrise_Commander

* https://github.com/escherdragon/sunrise-commander

* http://joseito.republika.pl/sunrise-commander

Cheers.
BernardSwiss

Jul 25, 2012
7:34 PM EDT
I keep telling myself that some day I'm going to "learn emacs" (ok, dabble a bit, learn some basics) nut I never get around to it.

But as it is, I sometimes need to "brush-up" my basic Vim skills (if only because it's worth it just to be able to easily insert a column of text).

Well, maybe when the weather turns cold and wet again...

BernardSwiss

Jul 25, 2012
7:36 PM EDT
@ escherdragon that's a cool nick!
escherdragon

Jul 28, 2012
2:46 PM EDT
I like it too ;-)

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