RE: dired-details-hide

[Drew Adams]

> there is a nice function dired-details-hide that hides the detail columns
> from a Dired buffer.
> 
> Anyone found a way to call it automatically whenever I create a new Dired
> buffer?
> 
> hint: cannot do that just with a major-mode-hook or something that is
> called when the buffer is created, because in the case of Find-dired, the
> buffer content is added asynchronously.
> 
> Is the solution in dired-details+.el?

Yes.  That is exactly what I do: start Emacs with Dired details hidden.

By default, the last state (details hidden or not) is remembered and used 
subsequently.

Just load dired-details+.el; it loads dired-details.el.
Works in any Emacs version.