Last updated on February 23, 2017
This package provides a minor mode dired-icon-mode
to display an icon for each file type in dired buffers. Currently MacOS and systems which run GTK 3, such as GNU/Linux, GNU/kFreeBSD and FreeBSD, are fully supported (pre-requisition for GTK systems: PyGObject for Python 3 and optionally the file command). On other systems, currently only directory icons are displayed.
Screenshot
Installation
MELPA
dired-icon can be installed from the MELPA repository. Follow the instructions to set up MELPA and then run package-install
RET dired-icon
RET to install.
el-get
dired-icon can be installed via el-get. Follow the instructions to set up el-get and then run el-get-install
RET dired-icon
RET to install.
Manual
Download this package and add the following to your ~/.emacs
or ~/.emacs.d/init.el
:
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/path/to/dired-icon")
(load "dired-icon.el")
Configuration
To display the icons in a dired buffer, simply call M-x dired-icon-mode
inside a dired buffer. To always display the file icons in dired buffers, add the following to your ~/.emacs
or ~/.emacs.d/init.el
:
(add-hook 'dired-mode-hook 'dired-icon-mode)
Development
The development of dired-icon happens on GitLab.