Re: dired listing (dont display ~ files)

[David Holden]

excellent, just what I needed.

 Thanks a lot
 
       Dave.



On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 12:25, Matthias Meulien wrote:
> David Holden <dh@iucr.org> wrote:
> 
> >  Does anyone know how I can get emacs Dired not to display files with ~
> > on the end, e.g. backup files in the C-f listing of a directory.
> 
> Dear David,
> 
> The `dired-x.el' file provides "extra" features for dired mode. Read
> the info nodes `(dired-x)Installation' and `(dired-x)Omitting Files'
> for more informations.
> 
> You need to load this elisp file (`M-x load-library RET dired-x RET').
> To do load it at startup, add the following in emacs init file :
> 
> (add-hook 'dired-load-hook
>                (lambda ()
>                  (load "dired-x")))
> 
> Then you toggle omitting of files with `dired-omit-toggle' bounded to
> `M-o'.
> 
> To turn it on automagically for each dired buffer, add the following
> to emacs init file :
> 
> (add-hook 'dired-mode-hook
>                (lambda ()
>                  (setq dired-omit-files-p t)))
> 
> The default value of `dired-omit-extensions' contains the elements of
> `completion-ignored-extensions',  apriori it contains "~"...
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