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

[Rob Giardina]

I planned to install Drew's tweaks so that the natural dired behavior  
worked more elegantly; I didn't handle some cases related to updates  
to a dired buffer and Drew's changes fixed that.

On Jul 3, 2007, at 11:43 PM, Richard Stallman wrote:

>     How about also installing the enhancements provided by dired- 
> details+.el?
>
> Once dired-details.el is installed, please post a copy
> and we can think about which of its features we want to install.
>
>     1. Update the hide/show overlays automatically whenever you  
> create new files
>     or directories or rename existing files or directories. This  
> means tweaking
>     the definitions of `dired-byte-compile', `dired-compress',
>     `dired-create-files' and `dired-create-directory' (instead of  
> advising
>     them).
>
> That sounds useful.  What precisely are the "hide/show overlays",  
> though?
> Which feature uses them?  Is that something in dired-details?

That's the heart of dired-details. It's just a loop over the lines of  
ls -l output to make the hairy parts invisible using an overlay.

>     2. Provide a user option, `dired-details-propagate-flag' which,  
> if non-nil,
>     propagates the last hide/show state you chose to the next Dired  
> buffer you
>     open.
>
> I would rather not install that.

I was going to look at that more closely to see if there's anything  
risky about it. If it's just a flag I was going to add it but in the  
interests of harmony I could wait.

-rob