dragon bindings for dired

Have you every needed to drag and drop something but then realised that you have to open a shudders non-Emacs file manger? Well not anymore! This package adds bindings for dragon so that you can live in Emacs a little more!

Do note that dired already acts like a sink in normal use so I won’t add dragon functionality for that. It’s a “why add an extra step” sort of thing.

Table of Contents

• In-File Commands
• In-Dired Commands

• Installation
  • Straight
  • Doom
• Configuring
  • Variables
  • Some pre-made configurations
    • Doom Emacs
    • Vanilla
• Known Bugs
  • The file will not open if there are spaces in the name.
• Contributing

In-File Commands

These commands are the original work of @ymarco. Thanks! They open up a dragon instance for the current file unless its an org or tex file. then it will check for a corresponding pdf file and drag that instead that is still a work in progress. You can still use the command but it will just drag the current file

At

Command	Use	Flag	Requires
:drag	an evil ex command to drag the current buffer and quit	-x	evil
dired-dragon-current-file	a vanilla version of the :drag command	-x	Nothing

In-Dired Commands

These commands are meant to be used in dired.

Commands	Use	Flag(s)
dired-dragon	The Default, drags all and closes after one drop	-x -a
dired-dragon-individual	window stays open and you can drag all the files
dired-dragon-stay	All files will be dropped into the same place but the window will stick around	-a

Installation

Straight

(use-package dired-dragon
  :straight (:host github
             :repo "jeetelongname/dired-dragon"))

Doom

;; packages.el
(package! dired-dragon :recipe (:host github
                                :repo "jeetelongname/dired-dragon"))
;; config.el
(use-package! dired-dragon)

Configuring

Variables

if you are on a distro that names dragon differently cough arch then you can change the variable dired-dragon-location to the name and or location of your choice

(setq dired-dragon-location (executable-find "the name of the executable"))
;; using executable find is a little better as it does not hard code the location
;; but this is optional, just provide it with a full path (eg /usr/bin/dragon)

Some pre-made configurations

Doom Emacs

If you are a doom emacs user (like me) then this snippet will help

;; config.el
(use-package! dired-dragon
  :after dired
  :config
  (map! :map dired-mode-map
        (:prefix "C-d" ;; I don't use `C-d' all to much in dired thus the remap
         :n "d" #'dired-dragon
         :n "s" #'dired-dragon-stay
         :n "i" #'dired-dragon-individual)))

Vanilla

This should be a copy and paste affair but I don’t use vanilla extensively

(use-package dired-dragon
  :straight (:host github
             :repo "jeetelongname/dired-dragon")

  ;; if you use use-package for bindings
  :bind (:map dired-mode-map
         ("C-d d" . dired-dragon)
         ("C-d s" . dired-dragon-stay)
         ("C-d i" . dired-dragon-individual))

  ;; if you don't
  (define-key dired-mode-map (kbd "C-d d") 'dired-dragon)
  (define-key dired-mode-map (kbd "C-d s") 'dired-dragon-stay)
  (define-key dired-mode-map (kbd "C-d i") 'dired-dragon-individual))

Known Bugs

The file will not open if there are spaces in the name.

yeah this is not ideal and a me issue (not a dragon issue) if this is still here then I have forgotten about this entry or its not fixed.

Contributing

Issue’s are welcome! Pull requests as well. This is my first “formal” package so any pointers would be appreciated