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: A "smaller" dired Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2010 08:50:53 -0700 Message-ID: <547CCD1598BC4FB8980A496C272784B5@us.oracle.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1280937448 3539 80.91.229.12 (4 Aug 2010 15:57:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2010 15:57:28 +0000 (UTC) To: "'Andrea Crotti'" , Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 04 17:57:26 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OggLG-00041P-1i for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Aug 2010 17:57:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51226 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OggGk-00011u-Sh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Aug 2010 11:52:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=58981 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OggFr-0000zV-BJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Aug 2010 11:51:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OggFm-0004ih-Am for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Aug 2010 11:51:43 -0400 Original-Received: from rcsinet10.oracle.com ([148.87.113.121]:24220) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OggFm-0004iZ-5l for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Aug 2010 11:51:38 -0400 Original-Received: from rcsinet13.oracle.com (rcsinet13.oracle.com [148.87.113.125]) by rcsinet10.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.2) with ESMTP id o74FpY0c026177 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 4 Aug 2010 15:51:35 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt354.oracle.com (acsmt354.oracle.com [141.146.40.154]) by rcsinet13.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.1) with ESMTP id o74FpWhA010648; Wed, 4 Aug 2010 15:51:32 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt010.oracle.com by acsmt354.oracle.com with ESMTP id 465644771280937054; Wed, 04 Aug 2010 08:50:54 -0700 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/10.159.217.40) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Wed, 04 Aug 2010 08:50:54 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: Thread-Index: Acsz6waGwRl/q43OQ8GHxT/8Yn2YvQAAHvtA X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5931 X-Source-IP: acsmt354.oracle.com [141.146.40.154] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090205.4C598C85.02B0:SCFMA4539814,ss=1,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:74436 Archived-At: > I was wondering if it would be possible to make the dired > buffer similar to the speedbar. I don't need the ecb and now > my dired opens magically only the files in > "git-files" but the buffer window is always too big. > > I removed the "-l" in the dired-list-switches but (as they > say) then it doesn't work anymore. > > Why does it need the verbose ls to be able to address to the > file after all? I think this is what you're looking for: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DiredDetails I am using MS Windows. 80% of the time my Dired buffers show only the file names. When I want to see the dates etc. I just hit a (toggle) key: `)'. This is especially important to me because I use a separate frame for each buffer (typically) and the frame is shrink-wrapped to fit the buffer. With dired-details the frame is narrow and doesn't waste real estate for stuff I'm not currently interested in. When I hit `)' to show the whole buffer, the frame is auto-resized accordingly. Even if you want to see the details 99% of the time this feature is useful. Whatever state you're in (show details or not) is kept as the default for new Dired buffers etc. Other than that effect on new buffers, the toggle affects only the current Dired buffer, so different ones can show details or not. [FWIW - This feature was OK'd for addition to vanilla Emacs a few years ago, but no one has bothered to add it. The author of dired-details.el and myself tried several times to get past the inertia, but to no avail so far.]