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RE: Dired - highlight the name of the directory in directory headers
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Drew Adams |
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RE: Dired - highlight the name of the directory in directory headers |
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Wed, 18 Nov 2020 15:08:51 -0800 (PST) |
> I thought it would be easy to highlight the name of the directory in
> directory headers in Dired buffers. For example:
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> /home/bob/Notes:
> ^^^^^
> My first approach was to use font-lock-add-keywords:
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> (font-lock-add-keywords 'dired-mode '("\\([^/]+\\):\n" . (1 'bold)))
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> but try as I might I could not get this to work.
FWIW, Dired+ highlights this line (with face
`diredp-dir-heading') using this font-lock entry:
'("^ \\(.+:\\)$" 1 diredp-dir-heading) ; Directory headers
https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/download/dired%2b.el