I want a file manager to appear on the side of the screen when I open emacs, like you would have in gedit or atom. I am open to using any package or plugin as long as you can tell me what to put in my init file to make it open when I start emacs.
I want a file manager to appear on the side of the screen when I open emacs, like you would have in gedit or atom. I am open to using any package or plugin as long as you can tell me what to put in my init file to make it open when I start emacs.
Okay… I think you want a “file manager”, the “actual” one, not an Emacs interface like Treemacs, is that right? A few options.
If you just want it to be on the side of Emacs, why don’t you just run it outside of Emacs and arrange it on the side? Your window manager would have features for that.
If you have to open it within the Emacs frame, you can use EXWM, but you have to use EXWM as your window manager instead of whatever WM you were using.
Maybe
M-x dired? If you want to put it ininit.el, that’d be(dired). You can put it in a window on the side. Not sure if that’s what you want at all.Let me know what you actually want. If you have any links of images or videos that help us understand your intention, that’d be awesome.