From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rob Giardina Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: dired-details: show/hide file details in Dired Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 23:53:18 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1183583379 11671 80.91.229.12 (4 Jul 2007 21:09:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 21:09:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Drew Adams , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 04 23:09:33 2007 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I6C6L-0001IR-Hz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Jul 2007 23:09:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I6C6K-0002gV-KG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Jul 2007 17:09:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I5vvr-0000WM-17 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jul 2007 23:53:35 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I5vvp-0000WA-Ga for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jul 2007 23:53:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I5vvp-0000W7-EY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jul 2007 23:53:33 -0400 Original-Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.235]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I5vvo-0002Nj-VP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jul 2007 23:53:33 -0400 Original-Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s7so1673705wxc for ; Tue, 03 Jul 2007 20:53:32 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type:message-id:cc:content-transfer-encoding:from:subject:date:to:x-mailer:sender; b=cFDzsOv1WF+4l020b3D18Pl3716vu77Jf06D0cQF6UBWPAjqmCVZUM1KMllypeR0MtQpL9WFV9o90Fl8xCcuteWhWDaXwjZUVFnCHLb5ILNFRe/JySKh7CqLgTzb+3h0v0W9E7HWy317eOybYdgvJd4yXnz4ihFr0fdebFfqMnc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type:message-id:cc:content-transfer-encoding:from:subject:date:to:x-mailer:sender; b=aY98gdo6QpQuWjTBcxF+rDn/cK8V/Yu93A5XC3IYyt7/eqaEN6GyVbiBUFjbGPLqVhD9kGLClk94jA0JSND3X/8hrs7YOI+2YA5rguT6psBurxo4vn+quT4bszM6BfH9Iw5DCOfUI/CNhWgDWuDbTi0rNNP30qQ+UCh9JDii1G4= Original-Received: by 10.70.11.1 with SMTP id 1mr8710697wxk.1183521212214; Tue, 03 Jul 2007 20:53:32 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from ?192.168.1.10? ( [71.163.252.18]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id 26sm451373wra.2007.07.03.20.53.30 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 03 Jul 2007 20:53:31 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.3) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 17:09:25 -0400 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:74304 Archived-At: 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