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

[Alvaro Ramirez <alvaro@xenodium.com>]

Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> writes:

> On Sun, 21 Jul 2024 at 23:14, Alvaro Ramirez 
> <alvaro@xenodium.com> wrote:
>
>> I have rough changes to enable hiding Dired’s absolute path via
>> dired-hide-details-mode.
>>
>> Given a Dired header path like:
>>
>> /long/path/to/some/location/that/goes/deep/into/emacs/lisp/eshell:
>>
>> dired-hide-details-mode would display it as:
>>
>> eshell:
>
> Will that be gated behind a separate setting?

Sure. Can do.

>  Because some of the
> projects I work on consist of multiple components with an 
> …/include
> and a …/src in each so it’s vital to see the full path.

Curious, in addition to dired header, wouldn't you also have 
de-duping details in the buffer name (and thus mode line)? I'm 
guessing I'm relying on the uniquify built-in package for this.

>
> (Well, maybe stripping the project root to just its basename 
> would be nice.)