Re: dired-details: show/hide file details in Dired

[Richard Stallman]

    That said, my mood doesn't  
    usually change, I just set the default to terse mode and peek at the  
    details when I need to know.

That is what I expect most people will want.

    When reviewing the code, I discovered that the `dired-details-toggle'  
    function (submitted by Klaus Berndl) has a clever feature I never  
    used. The 2nd param is a flag to update the `dired-details-initially- 
    hide' variable to the new state set by the toggle call thus the next  
    buffer will open in that state. This supports the usage by the multi- 
    mood user (with an appropriate key-binding) without adding another  
    variable to track global state.

That is nice.