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Re: dired-details: show/hide file details in Dired


From: Mathias Dahl
Subject: Re: dired-details: show/hide file details in Dired
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 22:50:40 +0200

Personnally, I don't usually want to see such info on a continual basis.
When I want to see it, I toggle briefly to see it, then go back to showing
no details. If there is a use case for continually showing a subset of the
information, that could perhaps be added as an enhancement.

My use cases are when I want to see the newest files in a directory.
Then I often sort by date and also look at files "grouped" by a
certain date, to identify batches of downloaded files. I often uses
the file size in combination with `g' to keep track of a file
download, if it is done or not. But I almost never use the part with
the permissions and user and group name.

Oh, I see, you want two or more columns for Dired, right? Yes, you can do
that too: `M-x follow-mode' + `C-x 3' (repeat `C-x 3' as needed). (The
toggle, however, acts on all of the Dired windows, not just one.)

I tried that and it seems to work OK. What I was thinking was that
similar to how your frames shrink, Dired could split the window and
show more when you got space back from hiding details. However, maybe
that would be annoying... :)

> How does these extensions work together with wdired.el?

Dunno. Give it a try ;-).

Maybe I will, maybe I will... :)




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