Re: Problems setting dired-listing-switches variable

[Paul Batt]

"Stein Arild "Strømme"" <stromme@math.uib.no> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
jxuzm5fyva6.fsf@math.uib.no">news:jxuzm5fyva6.fsf@math.uib.no...
> [Paul Batt]
>
> | I'd like to set the dired listing in such a way that all those filenames
> | starting with a point don't show up. But the ..-directory should be 
> there,
> | otherwise I see no way to move along the directory tree.
>
> Try ^

Yes, that changes to the parent directory. Very helpful, tks.

Still I'd like to know why --ignore= or --hide= in (dired-listing-switches) 
don't work. The emacs manual says they should.

Paul