From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Johnny Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Chage dired buffer format to terse Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 00:29:47 +0100 Message-ID: <87bofuuluc.fsf@gmx.co.uk> References: <87zk3fiom6.fsf@gmx.co.uk> <67A095470629429194D0EC7E67BBAA26@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1350948598 16725 80.91.229.3 (22 Oct 2012 23:29:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 23:29:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 23 01:30:06 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 1TQRRd-0008BY-Qj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Oct 2012 01:30:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59879 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TQRRW-0006Qp-7U for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Oct 2012 19:29:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:52405) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TQRRP-0006QC-6m for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Oct 2012 19:29:52 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TQRRN-0004Ij-Sp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Oct 2012 19:29:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mailout-eu.gmx.com ([213.165.64.43]:35446) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TQRRN-0004If-IY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Oct 2012 19:29:49 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 22 Oct 2012 23:29:48 -0000 Original-Received: from host86-190-97-2.wlms-broadband.com (EHLO deusexmachina) [86.190.97.2] by mail.gmx.com (mp-eu001) with SMTP; 23 Oct 2012 01:29:48 +0200 X-Authenticated: #57368918 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+2jA1wu2y20IGBr2eOIUliFx5xLOpZFt68OBEN+o yIO3VVLppRQjJr In-Reply-To: <67A095470629429194D0EC7E67BBAA26@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Sun, 21 Oct 2012 15:48:52 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.1 (gnu/linux) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 213.165.64.43 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:87370 Archived-At: "Drew Adams" writes: >> 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. > Thanks, this is exacly what I needed, works perfect! I agree it should be added by default, as it is a rare occasion when the details are of any interest. Oh, well, it is easy enugh to install once you know where to find it (my google skillset obviously let me down again...) -- Johnny