bug#45127: 28.0.50; wdired + dired-hide-details-mode toggling?

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:

> My wishlist proposal is: may we allow to toggle
> `dired-hide-details-mode' in a wdired buffer (currently an error is
> signaled in this case)?  I ask because (1) seems this would work out of
> the box, and (2) it may be useful, e.g. because I started with hidden
> details, already have performed some changes, and see that I need to
> change something in the details also.  Or I have long filenames and thus
> want to hide details although I have already switched to wdired.
>
> Anyway, the implementation of d-h-details-mode only seems to toggle some
> invisibility spec, and thus I expect no problems (will try it out
> privately in the meantime).
>
> I guess we would need a new key for it, since the binding for toggling,
> "(", is bound to self-insert-command in a wdired buffer.  C-c ( maybe?

I tried it out for a bit, and it seems to work without any problems, so
I lifted the dired-mode restriction and added the key binding in Emacs 29.

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