Question - Can I replace dired with deer?

[synic]

I've been trying my hand at emacs lisp, but unfortunately it's not working quite right. Maybe you can help? I'm trying to replace dired with deer as the default directory handler. I've got the following function:

(defun deer-find-file (&optional entry ignore-history)
  "Find file in deer buffer. `ENTRY` can be used as a path or filename, else
will use currently selected file in ranger. `IGNORE-HISTORY` will not update
history-ring on change."
  (interactive)
  (setq ranger-minimal t)
  (ranger-find-file entry ignore-history)
  )

And then, in my config, I have this:

  (setq find-directory-functions '(deer-find-file cvs-dired-noselect dired-noselect))

Unfortunately, when I try to open a directory, it says:

eval: Lisp nesting exceeds `max-lisp-eval-depth'

[punassuming]

@synic, I will try to figure out how to do this. The one complication I see is that I have most of the ranger variables globally defined, so multiple deer or ranger windows will likely not work. I can look into window specific variables to store all this data, but haven't had the need to until recently when I fixed frame checking behaviour.

Another thing you can try is to add a hook to dired-mode-hook or dired-mode-load-hook to open ranger after loading the dired buffer.

[punassuming]

@synic, added PR in spacemacs to work this way. punassuming/spacemacs@6bbaade

[synic]

Hrmm, it doesn't seem to work like I expect - maybe I'm going about this the wrong way. The project links on the homepage are nice, but they open in dired. Typing :e ~/ opens dired (but not always, this seems to change every time I type it). These are the behaviors I want to change - maybe I need to change them in spacemacs instead of in ranger.

I really only want to use one filemanager, but if I can replace it in those contexts, it should be sufficient.

[punassuming]

@synic, No it doesn't, I am cancelling PR and adding options into ranger specifically.

[synic]

ok! Thank you.

[punassuming]

@synic, commit is in setting is ranger-override-dired.

[synic]

Yay, it works! Thank you thank you.