`dired-omit-mode' matches file names against regexps, and removes their lines from the Dired listing. It can also be useful to match other things on a file's line, besides its name. For example, match the `x' permission to omit executable files. The attached code implements this. It adds a new option, `dired-omit-line-regexp', which is a regexp to match lines. It redefines `dired-omit-mode', `dired-omit-expunge', and `dired-do-kill-lines'. It adds optional args LINEP and INIT-COUNT to `dired-omit-expunge', and optional arg INIT-COUNT to `dired-do-kill-lines'. When the new option is non-nil, `dired-omit-mode' calls `dired-omit-expunge' a second time, to omit matching lines. The updated doc of `dired-do-kill-lines' speaks only of removing lines from the listing, not of "killing" lines, to avoid confusion with kills (the `kill-ring' is unaffected by this command). We should consider renaming the command altogether, but then the key binding of `k' would no longer be mnemonic'. At the very least, if the doc continues to speak of "killing" lines then it should explicitly say that the `kill-ring' is unaffected. If this improvement is OK (try it) then I can send a patch. Otherwise, I won't bother. The improvement was inspired by this user question: https://emacs.stackexchange.com/q/63659/105 In GNU Emacs 26.3 (build 1, x86_64-w64-mingw32) of 2019-08-29 Repository revision: 96dd0196c28bc36779584e47fffcca433c9309cd Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 10.0.19041 Configured using: `configure --without-dbus --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32 --without-compress-install 'CFLAGS=-O2 -static -g3''