From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [External] : don't show dired header Date: Thu, 05 May 2022 05:58:10 +0200 Message-ID: <87ee18r5pp.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: <87v8ukrcxp.fsf@dataswamp.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="8927"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:M864vauG5FLLG5OPT2c6VINj71A= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu May 05 05:58:49 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nmSdb-00026D-OC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 05 May 2022 05:58:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57362 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nmSda-0007Qn-AN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 04 May 2022 23:58:46 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:35172) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nmSdC-0007QO-5v for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 May 2022 23:58:22 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:55494) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nmSdA-0000zU-D7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 May 2022 23:58:21 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nmSd8-0001Zp-CJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 May 2022 05:58:18 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:137129 Archived-At: Drew Adams wrote: >> I think this line >> >> /home/incal/.emacs.d/emacs-init: (32.8 GiB available) >> >> is pretty meaningless, can I disable it and instead get an >> extra line to list the directory files? > > No, not out of the box, as far as I know. Not good. > That line might not appear very useful if you never list > more than one directory in a Dired buffer (though even then > it can help). If it is useful when using subdirs it should appear then and only then. How is it useful when not using subdirs? To tell the size left on the disk? If so, make it appear in the mode line instead of wasting one full line for that. And have that optional as well when at it ... See this screenshot: https://dataswamp.org/~incal/figures/emacs/dired.png -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal