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listing directory failed but ‘access-file’ worked error on macOS

1. Install gls (GNU ls) from GNU coreutils

brew install coreutils

1. Set insert-directory-program to gls

(setq insert-directory-program "gls")

How to hide the parent directory?

(setq dirvish-default-layout '(0 0.4 0.6))

How to startup dirvish without preview and parent windows?

;; consult its docstring for more info
(setq dirvish-default-layout nil)

How to hide continuation lines?

Do not display continuation lines globally:

(setq-default truncate-lines t)

Or disable it only in dirvish:

(add-hook 'dirvish-find-entry-hook
          (lambda (&rest _) (setq-local truncate-lines t)))

Also see #33

How to kill all session buffers on quit?

Set dirvish-reuse-session to nil.

Dirvish does not respect listing switches?

See Parsing switches and sample config.

Why do I have duplicate icon columns?

Disable all-the-icons-dired and treemacs-icons-dired.

Can not get access to commands in dirvish-mode-map?

It happend for some evil-mode users, you can try this:

;; setting it after dirvish to ensure `dirvish-mode-map' is loaded
(evil-make-overriding-map dirvish-mode-map 'normal)

Directory (Dired) previews not displayed in the preview buffer

It could happen if you enabled global-nlinum-mode, disable them in the directory preview buffers should do the trick: #306

(add-hook 'dirvish-directory-view-mode-hook (lambda () (nlinum-mode 0)))