Costumising the colours in Dired

Costumising the colours in Dired

[Andreas Christiansen]

Dired is kind enough to display the LaTeX files you don't want to keep 
(.aux, .log, etc) in a different colour, while the .tex files are 
displayed using the ordinary colour. That makes it easy to clean up all 
unwanted files.

However, the .pdf files is displayed in the same colour as the files you 
want to remove, while the .ps files are displayed using the ordinary 
colour. I want to swap colour for these two types of files. How do I do 
that?

After "clean up" I am only interested in keeping .tex and .pdf .

Andreas Christiansen
Dept. of Mathematics
Stord/Haugesund University College

Re: Costumising the colours in Dired

[Matthias]

Andreas Christiansen <andreas.christiansen@hsh.no> wrote:

> (...) I want to swap colour for these two types of files. How do I
> do that?

I think the color comes from the value of
`completion-ignored-extensions'. So you can try the following before
you create your dired buffer:

(setq completion-ignored-extensions
      (remove  ".pdf" (push ".ps" completion-ignored-extensions)))

> After "clean up" I am only interested in keeping .tex and .pdf .

See the following variables for automatic cleaning (needs the library
`dired-aux'): `dired-tex-unclean-extensions',
`dired-texinfo-unclean-extensions', `dired-latex-unclean-extensions',
`dired-bibtex-unclean-extensions'.
-- 
Matthias

Re: Costumising the colours in Dired

[David Hansen]

On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 13:21:40 +0100 Andreas Christiansen wrote:

> Dired is kind enough to display the LaTeX files you don't want to keep 
> (.aux, .log, etc) in a different colour, while the .tex files are 
> displayed using the ordinary colour. That makes it easy to clean up all 
> unwanted files.
>
> However, the .pdf files is displayed in the same colour as the files you 
> want to remove, while the .ps files are displayed using the ordinary 
> colour. I want to swap colour for these two types of files. How do I do 
> that?

(setq completion-ignored-extensions 
  (remove ".pdf" completion-ignored-extensions))

(add-to-list 'completion-ignored-extensions ".ps")

As you may have already guessed this has side effects when
completing file names.

David

Re: Costumising the colours in Dired

[Andreas Christiansen]

Thank you, Matthias and David -- my problem is solved.

Andreas