`nnn` is not tied to a single editor. It can work with anything. Yesternight I ended up writing a plugin for vim as one of the users requested. So probably someone can contribute a plugin (?) for emacs as well. Unfortunately my understanding of emacs is limited. And that's probably one of the problems with editor-specific plugins.

Well, emacs used like the GP suggest is not really an editor, and is more akin to a text-based application platform (with modes to browse the web, read your mail, play music, etc)

Aka EmacsOS!

I would love to hear other dired features that people use. I'm just now getting a comprehensive understanding of how great dired is.

Does it support file transfer over ftp, sftp, s3, etc?

Yes, that's where tramp comes in, although s3 might need a separate plugin.

For me the best part of dired is "do-what-i-mean" mode, dired-dwim. You basically get the output of `ls -la` and edit it as a text file. When you save, dired figures out changed names/permission bits/etc and does what you mean to those files.

Does dired have some sort of picture browse mode/functionality? That would be awesome!

I agree, that solution has endless of possibilities, I can’t think of any feature it doesn’t have

`vidir` does the same in vim and readily integrates with `nnn`.

Except I have to open emacs in one full second

Why would emacs ever be closed?

Anyway, if you run emacs as a server, you can connect to it with emacsclient in less than a second.

Even starting emacs from scratch can take less than a second, if your config is small enough or optimized enough.

... never close it :)