Re: A "smaller" dired

[Jay Belanger]

Andrea Crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com> writes:

> I was wondering if it would be possible to make the dired buffer similar
> to the speedbar.
> I don't need the ecb and now my dired opens magically only the files in
> "git-files" but the buffer window is always too big.
>
> I removed the "-l" in the dired-list-switches but (as they say) then it
> doesn't work anymore.

Perhaps dired-details and dired-details+
  http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DiredDetails
will help out.