From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Question on Customizing Dired Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 00:49:22 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <6de500be-045d-447e-9d69-a45b3a22eeb5@f18g2000prf.googlegroups.com> References: <9e9dcbd1-20e5-4de0-9f46-be6a95167178@l5g2000pra.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1249592941 28250 80.91.229.12 (6 Aug 2009 21:09:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 21:09:01 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 06 23:08:56 2009 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 4.50) id 1MZACl-0000fO-JP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:08:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54817 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MZACl-0008Fk-2w for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:08:55 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!f18g2000prf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 29 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.102.12.87 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1249544962 23123 127.0.0.1 (6 Aug 2009 07:49:22 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 07:49:22 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: f18g2000prf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.102.12.87; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/530.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/2.0.172.39 Safari/530.5, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:171669 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:49:08 -0400 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:66889 Archived-At: On Aug 5, 11:27 am, destino wrote: > Is it possible to customize the information that Dired displays? > > I would like to be able to hide the permissions, owner, group, and > date columns for so that it is easy to read in a narrow vertical > split. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated! > > Thanks! i think that's good too. In my 10 years using emacs, though i haven't heard about some package that'd do this. dired prob could use some overhaul in the next version of emacs. Allow user to set different views, much like modern OS's file manager. I should be able to say view it as detail (default emacs), or just file names, or view creation date, mod date, or customize any columns i might want to add/remove. Or, view as icons or thumbnails especiall for photo dir. (currently emacs can do thumbnail with tumme mode) one FAQ is how to get dired to sort by different orders. Currently, it's rather lacking and difficult. Another faq is to get dired to refesh automatically when folde changed outside emacs. Xah =E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/ =E2=98=84