dired-dtach

Utilities to spawn commands for opening files from dired. They require the dtach tool. Currently two features are supported:

1. Opening a terminal from directory the directory of the current dired buffer (dired-dtach-open-terminal).
2. Choose an application to open the file under point (dired-dtach-find-file). In contrast to Dired’s own & command, the spawned applications are completely detached and do not do things like exit when emacs exists, etc.

Usage:

(require 'dired-dtach)
(add-hook 'dired-mode-hook
          (lambda ()
            (define-key dired-mode-map "\C-m" 'dired-dtach-find-file)
            (define-key dired-mode-map (kbd "C-c t")  'dired-dtach-open-terminal)

Customization:

dired-dtach-default-launcher

default program to open files with

dired-dtach-terminal-command

the terminal emulator to use when opening terminals