>I confirm this is very useful. I'm using the same for a long time, >but additionally also displaying a total sum of sizes on every mark Thank you Juri, I like very much your idea about showing the file sizes! If we modify `dired-get-marked-files' as in the Bug#22892 we can get in a straightforward way the file sizes from the file system. I include the modified version of your code after these comments. >What about the size of directories are marked? I assume that it is to >costly to include the recursively computed size...? Good idea. >This is beginning to sound more useful. :-) Sure, now is much better. >the proposed key 'N' is already bound to dired-man in dired-x.el. >Another good mnemonic key would be '#', but it's taken as well. >Than maybe put it on the marking prefix key '*'. I do like '*#', but i like 'N' more. We can also reconsider a bit about the keybinding 'N' for dired-man. Honestly i don't see the needs for this, having `man' and `woman' working nicely. Indeed, the funtion is not working as it should: (dired "/bin") j bash RET N bash RET Canąt find the /bin/bash manpage ;; Notice how i need to introduce 'bash' by hand, because the ;; interactive specification of this func. is just (interactive). ;; I don't expect anyone will complaint if we change 'N' binding here. >Yes, doing `du -sh` often takes soo long... But we could include sizes >of subdirs only when called with a prefix arg. >I think the default should be to compute the sizes of files in the >directories, too. Perhaps a prefix to not do that... I have included the subdir sizes as an option: currently the subdir sizes are not computed by default. We can change this behaviour to the opposite, with subdir sizes computed by default, after the code being well tested. There are two functions doing the same thing: * my-dired-count-sizes-opt1: * my-dired-count-sizes-opt2: This looks nicer but it requires cl-lib. Current implementation just works for local subdirectories. If the Dired buffer is visiting a remote directory we need to introduce some tramp handlers. I need support from tramp experts. In GNU Emacs 25.1.50.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.29) of 2016-03-03 built on calancha-pc Repository revision: 887f6126c5ce9084f93083765ac026ca6b28175c ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ;;; Following code requires the patch on Bug#22892 (defcustom my-dired-used-space-program "du" "Program to get recursively the total size of a directory We assume the output has the format of `du'. The value of this variable must be just a command name or file name; if you want to specify options, use `my-dired-used-space-args'. A value of nil disables this feature." :type '(choice (string :tag "Program") (const :tag "None" nil)) :group 'dired) ;; this var is not a defcustom because current implementation ;; of `my-dired-count-sizes-opt1' and `my-dired-count-sizes-opt2' expect ;; sizes in bytes; then, depending of the value `my-dired-human-readable' ;; those sizes and shown in human readable units or keep in byts. (defvar my-dired-used-space-args "-sk" "Options to use when running `my-dired-used-space-program'.") (defvar my-dired-human-readable nil "When Non-nil, `my-dired-count-sizes' display file sizes using `file-size-human-readable'.") (defun my-dired-toggle-human-readable () (interactive) (setq my-dired-human-readable (not my-dired-human-readable)) (let ((string (if my-dired-human-readable "Using human-readable units in `my-dired-count-sizes'" "Using comma separator in `my-dired-count-sizes'"))) (message string))) (defun my-dired-use-comma-separator (num) "Return number NUM as an string using comma separator" (replace-regexp-in-string "^," "" (apply 'string (reverse (string-to-list (replace-regexp-in-string "\\([0-9]\\{3\\}\\)" "\\1," (apply 'string (reverse (string-to-list (replace-regexp-in-string "\\.0$" "" (number-to-string num))))))))))) (defun my-dired-file-marked-with-char-p (&optional mark) "Return t if file at current line is marked with MARK When MARK nil, `dired-marked-char' is used. If MARK equals any, any marker is accepted." (let ((marker (cond ((null mark) (dired-marker-regexp)) ((characterp mark) (concat "^" (regexp-quote (char-to-string mark)))) (t (dired-marker-regexp 'all-marks))))) (save-excursion (forward-line 0) (looking-at-p marker)))) ;;; ;;; Doesn't require cl-lib ;;; (defun my-dired-count-sizes-opt1 (&optional mark ask include-dirs) "Count sizes of files marked by MARK mark. When ASK non-nil user is prompted for MARK. Otherwise `dired-marker-char' is used. Optional arg INCLUDE-DIRS, if non-nil, run `my-dired-used-space-program' on the markd directories. Otherwise the size of the directories is not included." ;; TODO: add this info to mode-line and file count too, e.g.: F32 S64k ;; and make minor mode ;; see `dired-change-marks' (interactive (let* ((cursor-in-echo-area t) (default current-prefix-arg) (mark (or (and default (progn (message "Count files marked with mark: ") (read-char))) dired-marker-char)) (dirs (and default my-dired-used-space-program (y-or-n-p "Include directories? ")))) (list mark t dirs))) (unless mark (setq mark dired-marker-char)) ;; If `my-dired-used-space-program' not available signal an error. (when (and include-dirs (not (equal 0 (condition-case nil (process-file my-dired-used-space-program nil nil nil null-device) (error nil))))) (error "Program `my-dired-used-space-program' not found")) (if (eq mark ?\r) (progn (message "Mark cannot be \\r") (sit-for 1) (ding)) (let* ((files (dired-get-marked-files nil nil nil t mark)) (ndirectories 0) (nreg-files 0) (total-size (or (and (not (cdr files)) 0) (apply '+ (mapcar (lambda(fname-attrb) (let ((fname (car fname-attrb)) (attrb (cdr fname-attrb))) (if (eq (elt attrb 0) t) (progn (setq ndirectories (1+ ndirectories)) (if (not include-dirs) 0 (with-temp-buffer (call-process my-dired-used-space-program nil t nil my-dired-used-space-args fname) (goto-char 1) (search-forward-regexp "^[[:alnum:]]+" nil t) (* 1024.0 (string-to-number (match-string 0)))))) (setq nreg-files (1+ nreg-files)) (elt attrb 7)))) (mapcar (lambda(x) (cons x (file-attributes x))) (delq t files)))))) (total-size-str (if my-dired-human-readable (file-size-human-readable total-size) (my-dired-use-comma-separator total-size))) (total-count (if (eq (car files) t) 1 (length files)))) (if (null (cdr files)) (message "No marked files with mark '%s'" (char-to-string mark)) (message "Marked %s %s (%d non-dirs/%d dirs) with '%s' and total size %s%s%s" total-count (or (and (eq (car files) t) "file") "files") nreg-files ndirectories (char-to-string mark) total-size-str (or (and my-dired-human-readable "") " bytes") (or (and (not include-dirs) " (dirs size excluded)") "")))))) (define-key dired-mode-map [(shift f5)] 'my-dired-count-sizes-opt1) ;(define-key dired-mode-map (kbd "N") 'my-dired-count-sizes-opt1); dired-man (define-key dired-mode-map (kbd "*#") 'my-dired-count-sizes-opt1) ;;; ;;; Following function requires cl-lib ;;; (defun my-dired-count-sizes-opt2 (&optional mark ask include-dirs) "Count sizes of files marked by MARK mark. When ASK non-nil user is prompted for MARK. Otherwise `dired-marker-char' is used. Optional arg INCLUDE-DIRS, if non-nil, run `my-dired-used-space-program' on the markd directories. Otherwise the size of the directories is not included." ;; TODO: add this info to mode-line and file count too, e.g.: F32 S64k ;; and make minor mode ;; see `dired-change-marks' (interactive (let* ((cursor-in-echo-area t) (default current-prefix-arg) (mark (or (and default (progn (message "Count files marked with mark: ") (read-char))) dired-marker-char)) (dirs (and default my-dired-used-space-program (y-or-n-p "Include directories? ")))) (list mark t dirs))) (unless mark (setq mark dired-marker-char)) ;; If `my-dired-used-space-program' not available signal an error. (when (and include-dirs (not (equal 0 (condition-case nil (process-file my-dired-used-space-program nil nil nil null-device) (error nil))))) (error "Program `my-dired-used-space-program' not found")) (require 'cl-lib) ; for cl-remove-if and cl-set-difference (if (eq mark ?\r) (progn (message "Mark cannot be \\r") (sit-for 1) (ding)) (let* ((files (dired-get-marked-files nil nil nil t mark)) (non-dirs (cl-remove-if (lambda(x) (eq (car (file-attributes x)) t)) files)) (dirs (cl-set-difference files non-dirs :test 'equal)) (ndirectories (length dirs)) (nreg-files (length non-dirs)) (total-size (apply '+ (mapcar (lambda(x) (elt x 7)) (mapcar 'file-attributes (delq t non-dirs))))) total-size-str total-count) (when (and include-dirs (not (= ndirectories 0))) (let ((size 0)) (with-temp-buffer (apply 'call-process my-dired-used-space-program nil t nil my-dired-used-space-args dirs) (goto-char 1) (while (search-forward-regexp "^[[:alnum:]]+" nil t) (setq size (+ size (string-to-number (match-string 0)))))) (setq total-size (+ total-size (* 1024.0 size))))) (setq total-size-str (if my-dired-human-readable (file-size-human-readable total-size) (my-dired-use-comma-separator total-size)) total-count (if (eq (car files) t) 1 (length files))) (if (null (cdr files)) (message "No marked files with mark '%s'" (char-to-string mark)) (message "Marked %s %s (%d non-dirs/%d dirs) with '%s' and total size %s%s%s" total-count (or (and (eq (car files) t) "file") "files") nreg-files ndirectories (char-to-string mark) total-size-str (or (and my-dired-human-readable "") " bytes") (or (and (not include-dirs) " (dirs size excluded)") "")))))) ;; (define-key dired-mode-map [(shift f5)] 'my-dired-count-sizes-opt2) ;; ;;(define-key dired-mode-map (kbd "N") 'my-dired-count-sizes-opt2); dired-man ;; (define-key dired-mode-map (kbd "*#") 'my-dired-count-sizes-opt2) ;; Bound for comparison with `my-dired-count-sizes-opt1' (bound to '*#') (define-key dired-mode-map (kbd "N") 'my-dired-count-sizes-opt2) (defun my-dired-mark (&optional arg mark) "Mark ARG files and print the total size of marked files In interactive calls, if ARG equals to '(4), the user is asked for arg and marker-char." (interactive (let* ((default current-prefix-arg) (mark (cond ((equal default '(4)) (progn (message "Mark files with mark: ") (read-char))) (t dired-marker-char))) (nfiles (and default (string-to-number (read-string "Number of files to mark: " nil nil "1"))))) (list (list nfiles) mark))) (let ((dired-marker-char (or mark dired-marker-char))) (dired-mark arg)) (my-dired-count-sizes mark)) (define-key dired-mode-map [insert] 'my-dired-mark) (defun my-dired-unmark-backward (&optional arg) "Move ARG up lines, remove deletion flag there and print size of marked files In interactive calls, if `current-prefix-arg' equals '(4), the user is prompt for ARG." (interactive (let* ((default current-prefix-arg) (nfiles (and (equal default '(4)) (string-to-number (read-string "Number of files to unmark: " nil nil "1"))))) (list (or nfiles 1)))) (let (files) (save-excursion (cond ((null arg) (dired-next-line -1) (push (dired-get-filename nil 'noerror) files)) ((or (numberp arg) (and (consp arg) (numberp (car arg)))) (let ((times (or (and (atom arg) arg) (car arg)))) (while (not (= times 0)) (dired-next-line -1) (when (my-dired-file-marked-with-char-p ?a) (push (dired-get-filename nil 'noerror) files)) (setq times (1- times))) (setq files (delq nil files)))))) (dired-unmark-backward arg) (let* ((total-size (apply '+ (mapcar (lambda(x) (elt x 7)) (mapcar 'file-attributes files)))) (total-size-str (if my-dired-human-readable (file-size-human-readable total-size) (my-dired-use-comma-separator total-size)))) (if (null files) (message "No marked files") (message "Unmarked %s %s with %s%s" (length files) (or (and (cdr files) "files") "file") total-size-str (or (and my-dired-human-readable "") " bytes")))))) (define-key dired-mode-map [backspace] 'my-dired-unmark-backward) ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;