I was browsing the interwebs this morning, looking for a way to open a Dired buffer of the current finder window. There is a lot on going the other way, from Emacs to the Finder, but nothing from the Finder to Emacs. I got this from Fortune Datko:
Add this to your shell rc file (in my case, .zshrc):
# open a dired window for the current directory
dired() {
emacsclient -e "(dired \"$PWD\")"
}
Then, assuming that Emacs server is running, type “dired” in the shell, and a Dired
buffer of that directory opens in the current Emacs frame.
Just out of curiosity, I wondered what typing “emacsclient -c .” would do. It opens a dired buffer in a new frame. I have a shell script called “ec” that starts a new emacs client, but it’s easy to do it with a zsh alias:
alias ec="emacsclient -c -a ''"
This starts a server if there is not one already, then opens a new client. So, typing ec . should then open a Dired buffer in a new frame.