diff --git a/core/packages.el b/core/packages.el
index c41aeed79..344b0dbec 100644
--- a/core/packages.el
+++ b/core/packages.el
@@ -8,7 +8,9 @@
   (package! ns-auto-titlebar))
 
 ;; core-ui.el
-(package! all-the-icons)
+(package! all-the-icons
+  :recipe (:fetcher github :repo "ubolonton/all-the-icons.el"
+           :branch "font-lock-fix" :files (:defaults "data")))
 (package! hide-mode-line)
 (package! highlight-indentation)
 (package! highlight-numbers)
diff --git a/init.example.el b/init.example.el
index ad85bd8ba..f6baad4a3 100644
--- a/init.example.el
+++ b/init.example.el
@@ -50,7 +50,10 @@
        rotate-text       ; cycle region at point between text candidates
 
        :emacs
-       dired             ; making dired pretty [functional]
+       (dired            ; making dired pretty [functional]
+       ;;+ranger         ; bringing the goodness of ranger to dired
+       ;;+icons          ; colorful icons for dired-mode
+        )
        ediff             ; comparing files in Emacs
        electric          ; smarter, keyword-based electric-indent
        ;;eshell            ; a consistent, cross-platform shell (WIP)
diff --git a/modules/config/default/+bindings.el b/modules/config/default/+bindings.el
index 573874dcf..363975d76 100644
--- a/modules/config/default/+bindings.el
+++ b/modules/config/default/+bindings.el
@@ -512,7 +512,7 @@
 
       ;; C-u is used by evil
       :desc "Universal argument"      :n "u"  #'universal-argument
-      :desc "window"                  :n "w"  evil-window-map
+      :desc "window"                  :nm "w"  evil-window-map
 
       (:desc "previous..." :prefix "["
         :desc "Text size"             :nv "[" #'text-scale-decrease
@@ -698,6 +698,10 @@
         :desc "REPL"                  :n  "r" #'+eval/open-repl
                                       :v  "r" #'+eval:repl
         :desc "Dired"                 :n  "-" #'dired-jump
+        (:when (featurep! :emacs dired +ranger)
+          :desc "Deer"   :nm "j" #'deer
+          :desc "Ranger" :nm "J" #'ranger)
+
         (:when (featurep! :ui neotree)
           :desc "Project sidebar"              :n  "p" #'+neotree/open
           :desc "Find file in project sidebar" :n  "P" #'+neotree/find-this-file)
diff --git a/modules/emacs/dired/config.el b/modules/emacs/dired/config.el
index 1bdafea03..1e37c5f70 100644
--- a/modules/emacs/dired/config.el
+++ b/modules/emacs/dired/config.el
@@ -17,6 +17,17 @@
         image-dired-temp-image-file (concat image-dired-dir "temp-image")
         image-dired-temp-rotate-image-file (concat image-dired-dir "temp-rotate-image"))
   :config
+  ;; Use GNU ls as `gls' from `coreutils' if available.  Add `(setq
+  ;; dired-use-ls-dired nil)' to your config to suppress the Dired warning when
+  ;; not using GNU ls.  We must look for `gls' after `exec-path-from-shell' was
+  ;; initialized to make sure that `gls' is in `exec-path'
+  (when IS-MAC
+    (let ((gls (executable-find "gls")))
+      (if gls
+          (setq insert-directory-program gls)
+        (message "Please install `gls` using `brew instal coreutils`..."))))
+  (setq dired-listing-switches "-aBhl --group-directories-first")
+
   (defun +dired|sort-directories-first ()
     "List directories first in dired buffers."
     (save-excursion
@@ -42,6 +53,7 @@
 
 
 (def-package! dired-k
+  :unless (featurep! +ranger)
   :hook (dired-initial-position . dired-k)
   :hook (dired-after-readin . dired-k-no-revert)
   :config
@@ -60,6 +72,41 @@
   (advice-add #'dired-k--highlight :around #'+dired*dired-k-highlight))
 
 
+(def-package! ranger
+  :when (featurep! +ranger)
+  :init
+  (defun ranger/dired-setup ()
+    (setq dired-omit-verbose nil)
+    (make-local-variable 'dired-hide-details-hide-symlink-targets)
+    (setq dired-hide-details-hide-symlink-targets nil)
+    ;; hide details by default
+    (dired-hide-details-mode t))
+  (add-hook 'dired-mode-hook #'ranger/dired-setup)
+
+  (setq ranger-override-dired t)
+  ;; set up image-dired to allow picture resize
+  (setq image-dired-dir (concat doom-cache-dir "image-dir"))
+  (unless (file-directory-p image-dired-dir)
+    (make-directory image-dired-dir))
+  :config
+  (setq ranger-omit-regexp "^\.DS_Store$"
+        ranger-excluded-extensions '("mkv" "iso" "mp4")
+        ranger-deer-show-details nil
+        ranger-max-preview-size 10))
+
+
+(def-package! all-the-icons-dired
+  :when (featurep! +icons)
+  :defer t
+  :init
+  (add-hook! 'dired-mode-hook #'all-the-icons-dired-mode))
+
+
+(def-package! dired-x
+  :defer t
+  :commands dired-omit-mode
+  :hook (dired-mode . dired-omit-mode))
+
 ;;
 ;; Evil integration
 
@@ -155,7 +202,7 @@
       :n "r" #'dired-do-redisplay
       :n "m" #'dired-mark
       :n "t" #'dired-toggle-marks
-      :n "u" #'dired-unmark                   ; also "*u"
+      :n "u" #'dired-unmark             ; also "*u"
       :n "W" #'browse-url-of-dired-file
       :n "x" #'dired-do-flagged-delete
       :n "gy" #'dired-show-file-type ;; FIXME: This could probably go on a better key.
diff --git a/modules/emacs/dired/packages.el b/modules/emacs/dired/packages.el
index c1ed6be70..9bc49ca9a 100644
--- a/modules/emacs/dired/packages.el
+++ b/modules/emacs/dired/packages.el
@@ -2,4 +2,7 @@
 ;;; emacs/dired/packages.el
 
 (package! dired-k)
-
+(when (featurep! +ranger)
+  (package! ranger))
+(when (featurep! +icons)
+  (package! all-the-icons-dired))