From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Chage dired buffer format to terse Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2012 15:48:52 -0700 Message-ID: <67A095470629429194D0EC7E67BBAA26@us.oracle.com> References: <87zk3fiom6.fsf@gmx.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1350859780 8451 80.91.229.3 (21 Oct 2012 22:49:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2012 22:49:40 +0000 (UTC) To: "'Johnny'" , Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 22 00:49:48 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TQ4L3-0000j2-V9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Oct 2012 00:49:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39292 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TQ4Kw-0000AZ-4d for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Oct 2012 18:49:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:59554) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TQ4Kr-0000AU-Mn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Oct 2012 18:49:34 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TQ4Kq-0003k0-HM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Oct 2012 18:49:33 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet15.oracle.com ([141.146.126.227]:36337) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TQ4Kq-0003jm-CA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Oct 2012 18:49:32 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet22.oracle.com (acsinet22.oracle.com [141.146.126.238]) by acsinet15.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2) with ESMTP id q9LMnR4H029675 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sun, 21 Oct 2012 22:49:28 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt358.oracle.com (acsmt358.oracle.com [141.146.40.158]) by acsinet22.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q9LMnRsA027355 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 21 Oct 2012 22:49:27 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt103.oracle.com (abhmt103.oracle.com [141.146.116.55]) by acsmt358.oracle.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id q9LMnQtV029068; Sun, 21 Oct 2012 17:49:26 -0500 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/71.202.147.44) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Sun, 21 Oct 2012 15:49:26 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <87zk3fiom6.fsf@gmx.co.uk> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 Thread-Index: Ac2vxnS0F8DuWHhUTQmeWDZqLc0y+AAFpi0A X-Source-IP: acsinet22.oracle.com [141.146.126.238] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-Received-From: 141.146.126.227 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:87353 Archived-At: > Just changed my monitor to "portrait mode", and don't enjoy the > filenames displayed by dired so want to omit some info (group > and owner are good candidates, as well as modified times). > Even better, is there something like dired-x omit for columns > instead of files? I use omit to toggle hidden files, and another > keybinding to toggle columns would be awesome. http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DiredDetails I keep details hidden 80% of the time, and toggle showing/hiding using key `('. FWIW, this feature was agreed by Emacs Dev (including RMS) to be added to Emacs years ago, but despite frequent reminders that has never happened. Anyway, it is easy enough to add this to your `~/.emacs'. Enjoy.