Preface

how to use the fast terminal in emacs but still somehow stay integrated with oopening media files in a suckless way. add the following example in your configuration and then open your media files with the ! key.

Example

(use-package dired
  :ensure nil                                                ;; This is built-in, no need to fetch it.
  :custom
  (dired-listing-switches "-lah --group-directories-first")  ;; Display files in a human-readable format and group directories first.
  (dired-dwim-target t)                                      ;; Enable "do what I mean" for target directories.
  (dired-guess-shell-alist-user
   '(("\\.\\(png\\|jpe?g\\|tiff\\)" "feh" "xdg-open" "open") ;; Open image files with `feh' or the default viewer.
     ("\\.\\(mp[34]\\|m4a\\|ogg\\|flac\\|webm\\|mkv\\)" "mpv" "xdg-open" "open") ;; Open audio and video files with `mpv'.
     (".*" "open" "xdg-open")))                              ;; Default opening command for other files.
  (dired-kill-when-opening-new-dired-buffer t)               ;; Close the previous buffer when opening a new `dired' instance.
  :config
  (when (eq system-type 'darwin)
    (let ((gls (executable-find "gls")))                     ;; Use GNU ls on macOS if available.
      (when gls
        (setq insert-directory-program gls)))))

References

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