From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mathias Dahl Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: hide/show in dired Date: 21 Jun 2004 19:55:11 +0200 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1088537332 22895 80.91.224.253 (29 Jun 2004 19:28:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 19:28:52 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 29 21:28:41 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BfOHY-0006ig-00 for ; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 21:28:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BfOJE-0007NI-NB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 15:30:24 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsmi-us.news.garr.it!newsmi-eu.news.garr.it!NewsITBone-GARR!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de Lhzqqwm81xqHLh5r/rZquAtzMy5pJvbFuWRdFUEu9fV20ZnkgW User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:123873 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 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 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:19235 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:19235 Enila Nero writes: > I have looked around for hide/show functionality in dired, but > couldn't find anything. What I mean, is to be able to give a regexp > and dired would limit the display to matching files only. Then, to be > able to redisplay all the files. > > This behavior would analogous to gnus-summary-limit-to-* and > gnus-summary-pop-limit in gnus, where articles are hidden and then > popped. > > The closest functionality I found is the dired-omit-extensions in > dired-x.el and dired-wipe.el, but don't quite have the above > behavior. You might find the following links useful: * http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/Dired-and-Find.html#Dired%20and%20Find * http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/Dired-Updating.html#Dired%20Updating /Mathias