Re: dired-details-hide

[Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>]

daniel <idnael@gmail.com> writes:

> hi
> there is a nice function dired-details-hide that hides the detail columns
> from a Dired buffer.
>
> Anyone found a way to call it automatically whenever I create a new Dired
> buffer?
>
> hint: cannot do that just with a major-mode-hook or something that is
> called when the buffer is created, because in the case of Find-dired, the
> buffer content is added asynchronously.
>
> Is the solution in dired-details+.el?

I don't use dired-details+.el.  I rely on what comes with Emacs itself.


Add this hook

    (add-hook 'dired-mode-hook 'dired-hide-details-mode)


When details are hidden, the dired buffer no longer looks like a dired
buffer.  So I give it a special face, as below.

    (custom-set-variables
     '(buffer-face-mode-face (quote (:background "light gray"))))

    (add-hook 'dired-mode-hook 'buffer-face-mode)