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## 2 Installation

This manual describes the Dired features provided by the file `dired-x.el`. To take advantage of these features, you must load the file and (optionally) set some variables.

In your `~/.emacs` file, or in the system-wide initialization file `default.el` in the `site-lisp` directory, put

    (add-hook 'dired-load-hook
              (lambda ()
                (load "dired-x")
                ;; Set dired-x global variables here.  For example:
                ;; (setq dired-guess-shell-gnutar "gtar")
                ;; (setq dired-x-hands-off-my-keys nil)
                ))
    (add-hook 'dired-mode-hook
              (lambda ()
                ;; Set dired-x buffer-local variables here.  For example:
                ;; (dired-omit-mode 1)
                ))

This will load `dired-x.el` when Dired is first invoked (for example, when you first type `C-x d`).