Reveal in macOS Finder (DWIM style)
reddit / emacs

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xenodium · 2022-10-09 18:49



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xenodium · 2022-10-09 18:54

tl;dr you can get multi-selection reveal in macOS Finder with [dwim-
shell-command](https://github.com/xenodium/dwim-shell-command) using
the following snippet. The [reveal in macOS Finder (DWIM style)
post](https://xenodium.com/emacs-reveal-in-finder-dwim-style/) has
more details.

    (defun dwim-shell-commands-macos-reveal-in-finder ()
      "Reveal selected files in macOS Finder."
      (interactive)
      (dwim-shell-command-on-marked-files
       "Reveal in Finder"
       "import AppKit
        NSWorkspace.shared.activateFileViewerSelecting([\"<<*>>\"].map
{URL(fileURLWithPath:$0)})"
       :silent-success t
       :shell-pipe "swift -"
       :join-separator ", "))

edit: typos

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Atemu12 · 2022-10-09 21:18

Could you put these cool macOS integration plumbing functions you show
here into package?

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xenodium · 2022-10-09 21:27

Most commands are already available as a separate package  (under
[dwim-shell-commands.el](https://github.com/xenodium/dwim-shell-
command/blob/main/dwim-shell-commands.el)). See [install command line
utilities](https://github.com/xenodium/dwim-shell-command#install-
command-line-utilities).

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brandon_t2009 · 2022-10-09 22:54

That’s awesome!

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alkatraz445 · 2022-10-10 01:16

Emacs is my God

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[deleted] · 2022-10-10 04:26

Mine too.

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divinedominion · 2022-10-10 08:05

Sweet, a great example!

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divinedominion · 2022-10-10 15:33

Also impressive how fast `swift - "..."` executed the reveal
operation. Didn't expect that to work so well

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xenodium · 2022-10-10 15:53

Same here. Seems to work fairly well so far. Got other ideas to send
to `swift -`? ;)

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divinedominion · 2022-10-10 16:00

I mean, it could do anything :) Download, encrypt, that can be done
via other CLI tools. Valuable Apple API could be Natural Language
toolkit for some stats.

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xenodium · 2022-10-10 16:52

Same idea in ob-swiftui https://xenodium.com/previewing-swiftui-
layouts-in-emacs-revisited/

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Primary-Wave2 · 2022-10-11 15:29

Can I ask what emacs port you are using for Mac?
Just curious

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xenodium · 2022-10-11 15:34

Emacs plus with native como https://xenodium.com/emacs-plus-with-
native-comp

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xenodium · 2022-10-12 01:32

Ok, getting a little more daring with Swift... Totally experimental,
but see if this works for you [M-x dwim-shell-commands-macos-
share](https://github.com/xenodium/dwim-shell-
command/blob/919817520fa507dd3c7e6859eb982976e28b2575/dwim-shell-
commands.el#L370)