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User Guide for Absolute Emacs beginners.

If you are new to Emacs and consider using Dirvish as your ranger or lf replacement, this guide is for you.

TODO: video demo

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Installation

Install Emacs according to the instructions. Dired is the Emacs’s inbuilt DIRectory EDitor, which doesn’t require you to install it separably. Please make sure to install Emacs with major version 28+ (29 are recommended).

# Clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/alexluigit/dirvish ~/dirvish
# Prepare the Emacs config
cp ~/dirvish/docs/.emacs.d.example ~/.emacs.d
# Start Emacs daemon (wait for the package installation)
emacs --daemon
# Open Emacs
emacsclient -cn

Now you can M-x dirvish RET, enjoy!

See prerequisites for other optional dependencies.

Quickstart

New to Emacs?

• The Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Emacs

Dired Basics

• Basics of the Emacs file manager
• Wiki: Dired-mode

Customize Dired/Dirvish

See README

Migrating to Emacs?

Starter kits

• Doom-Emacs (built-in dirvish support)
• Spacemacs
• Purcell’s Emacs config
• Centaur Emacs

Other Resources

• https://wikemacs.org/wiki/Main_Page
• https://github.com/emacs-tw/awesome-emacs