Re: Keen on a dired-hide-details-mode patch?

[Charles Choi <kickingvegas@gmail.com>]

Alvaro - 

Yes, `dired-maybe-insert-subdir` is the command that inserts a subdir provided it is issued when the point is over a directory. For reference, I invoke it from Casual Dired from here https://github.com/kickingvegas/casual-dired/blob/4be72b52f91700cdb529a185b8f6f21bd0a86542/lisp/casual-dired.el#L76

Ideally your hiding code would show the relative pathname of a subdir when hiding is turned on, otherwise the fullpath.

Note that my current understanding of subdir behavior with default Dired is that it only supports subdirectories within the current parent directory. I vaguely recall there are other 3rd party packages that try to let you insert out-of-hierarchy subdirs. I don’t think it’s something you need to support, but this patch could potentially break such packages if pushed into core.

All my best -

Charles

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Charles Y. Choi, Ph.D.
kickingvegas@gmail.com





> On Aug 1, 2024, at 9:31 AM, Alvaro Ramirez <alvaro@xenodium.com> wrote:
> 
> For the subdirs view in the screenshot you sent, I triggered it using `M-x dired-maybe-insert-subdir`. Lemme know if you're using a different mechanism.