Diredful.el provides a simple UI for customizing dired mode to use different faces and colors. Faces are chosen based on file extension, file name, or a regexp matching the file line.
Screenshots available at EmacsWiki.
Using Melpa:
M-x package-install RET diredful RET
Then to activate by default, add the following into your init file (customizing this variable will not work):
(diredful-mode 1)
For manual installation, put diredful.el in your Emacs-Lisp load path, and add this to your init file:
(require 'diredful) (diredful-mode 1)
Do:
M-x diredful-add
This will ask you to define a new name for a file type, like “images”. You can then specify a list of extensions or file names that belong to this type and customize the face used to display them. A new face will be automatically generated and updated for each type.
Note: changes will only be applied to newly created dired buffers.
File Types can be added, edited, and deleted using the following commands:
M-x diredful-add M-x diredful-delete M-x diredful-edit M-x diredful-edit-file-at-point
These settings will be saved to the location of
diredful-init-file (the default is
“~/.emacs.d/diredful-conf.el”). You may choose a different location
by doing:
M-x customize-variable RET diredful-init-file
File type names are sorted alphabetically before being applied. If two file types matched the same file, the file type that comes last in an alphabetically-sorted list will take precedence (e.g., a type named “zworldwritable” will take priority over other types).
The world-writable regexp pattern used in the screenshot is [rwx-][rwx-][rwx-][rwx-][rwx-][rwx-][rwx-]w[trwx-].