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Added new description to dired section for directory creation.
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brickviking committed Dec 18, 2023
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These are some of the commands that can be used in a dired buffer. For all intents, you can do
nearly everything in here that you could do from a commandline—deletion, moving or renaming. Of
course, creation is done by simply opening a new buffer and saving it to a location that you enter
when you type =C-x s=. You can move using the usual cursor motion commands, either
Up/Down/Left/Right or C-n/C-p.
course, file creation is done by simply opening a new buffer (=C-x b=) or file (=C-x f=) and saving
it to a location that you enter when you type =C-x s=. You can move using the usual cursor motion
commands, either Up/Down/Left/Right or C-n/C-p. Directory creation uses =C-x +=, simply feed that a
new name.

With regard to moving by "pages", you can insert the content of subdirectories in each dired buffer
with the command M-x dired-insert-subdir. That content will appear below the content of the top
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| Toggle marks | t | Invert whatever marks are present |
| Query/replace-regexp | Q | Asks for regexp to replace, then asks for replacement |
| | | It then proceeds through all matches asking y/n |
| Create new directory | + | Choose new name that isn't already taken |
|----------------------+--------+-------------------------------------------------------|

To remove certain files from the listing (this does not delete them from the disk), mark them first
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