Re: dired listg & dired-sort-menu.el

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

Sorry to keep pounding away on this

Harry wrote:
>> I had already googled up code to hide dot files
>

Drew responded:
> Yes, Dired Omit is good for that. But `dired-omit-mode' is the
> supported name now, instead of `dired-omit-files-p'.  It is probably
> better to use this to turn it on, instead of just setting the mode
> variable:
>
> (dired-omit-mode 1)
>

I find a bit of peculiarity on this too.

If I have 

  (dired-omit-mode 1)
  (setq dired-omit-files
         (concat dired-omit-files "\\|^\\..+$"))

Dired opens with the dot files still visible (Yes they can be toggled
to hidden)

But if I have:
  (setq-default dired-omit-files-p t)
  (setq dired-omit-files
          (concat dired-omit-files "\\|^\\..+$"))

Then Dired opens with dot files hidden (Which is what I wanted).  And
of they can be toggled showing.