Re: non noisy dired

[Suvayu Ali]

Drew Adams wrote:
> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DiredDetails
>
> You'll never have to see anything other than the file name, unless you want to,
> and you can do that by hitting a toggle key.
>
> Other than that solution, you can control the ls that switches used, for the
> expanded (unhidden) listing, as Eli mentioned.

Hi Drew,

This is probably OT, but still. When you mentioned this extension I 
tried out dired-details+.el. It works perfectly as expected when I load 
it using `M-x load-library dired-details+'.

However if I put (require 'dired-details+) in my .emacs, I get "Symbol's 
value as variable is void: dired-mode-map" in the Messages buffer. On 
starting emacs with the --debug-init flag I get,

> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-variable dired-mode-map)
>   byte-code( <some gibberish> [dired-mode-map fboundp dired-details-show dired-details-install define-key "(" 
> dired-details-toggle ")" ad-add-advice (fit-dired-frame nil t (advice lambda nil "Save 
> `dired-details-last-state'.  Fit Dired frame if `one-window-p'." ... ...)) after nil ad-activate dired-details-hide 
> (fit-dired-frame nil t (advice lambda nil "Save `dired-details-last-state'.  Fit Dired frame if `one-window-p'." 
> ... ...)) provide dired-details+] 5)
>   require(dired-details+)
>   eval-buffer(#<buffer  *load*> nil "/home/jallad/.emacs" nil t)  ; Reading at 
> buffer position 2406
>   load-with-code-conversion("/home/jallad/.emacs" "/home/jallad/.emacs" t t)
>   load("~/.emacs" t t)
>   #[nil <some gibberish> " [init-file-user system-type user-init-file-1 user-init-file otherfile source ms-dos "~" "/_emacs" windows-nt directory-files nil "^\\.emacs\\(\\.elc?\\)?$" 
> "~/.emacs" "^_emacs\\(\\.elc?\\)?$" "~/_emacs" vax-vms "sys$login:.emacs" "/.emacs" t load expand-file-name "init" file-name-as-directory "/.emacs.d" 
> file-name-extension "elc" file-name-sans-extension ".el" file-exists-p file-newer-than-file-p message "Warning: %s is newer than %s" sit-for 1 "default" alt inhibit-default-init 
> inhibit-startup-screen] 7]()
>   command-line()
>   normal-top-level()

I couldn't get the <some gibberish> parts to paste into thunderbird or 
any other text editor, sorry. I tried this on Fedora 10 and Xubuntu 
Hardy Heron with the emacs 22 installed from the distro supplied packages.

What am I doing wrong here? I am very new to emacs, just a few months. 
So its very likely I could be missing something trivial.

Thanks for any pointers.

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Suvayu

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