Re: behavior of dired-hide-*

[Thierry Volpiatto]

Thanks for your answer,

"Davis Herring" <address@hidden> writes:

>> It seem to me, according to manual  that the first is to hide directory
>> at point and  the second is to hide all directories in current dired
>> buffer.
>
> That's correct, but from what follows I suppose you misunderstand what the
> documentation for those commands means by "a directory".  A Dired buffer
> can list the contents of multiple directories (not just list, one per
> line, each of the subdirectories of a single directory).  $ and M-$
> manipulate which of these listings is displayed, rather than affecting the
> display of any one file (which might happen to be a directory file).

Yes, i don't understand what is a directory according to the behavior of
this command:
What the $ dired command should do when i run it on the root (/) of my
system and the cursor is on say /bin?
Actually it hide all, and and M-$ does the same.

So what these $ and M-$ are for?

for me actually, they hide all files and subdirs in all case.

>> It hide all for me (files and dirs) and leave only the first line of
>> dired buffer (the directory header).(the two commands $ and M-$ do the
>> same).
>
> When you only have one directory listed (which is the normal starting
> case), they are the same.

Sorry for my difficulty to understand that, but that still very unclear
for me.

Here a directory:(is it?)

,----
|   /etc:
|   total used in directory 2120 available 8350832
|   drwxr-xr-x 90 root    root  12288 Mar  2 20:52 .
|   drwxr-xr-x 21 root    root   4096 Mar  6  2009 ..
|   -rw-------  1 root    root      0 Apr 20  2007 .pwd.lock
|   -rw-r--r--  1 root    root  65265 Oct 24 20:55 ANYTHING-TAG-FILE
|   drwxr-xr-x  4 root    root   4096 Feb 16  2009 ConsoleKit
|   -rw-r--r--  1 root    root   4468 Oct 23 14:06 DIR_COLORS
|   drwxr-xr-x  2 root    root   4096 Dec 20 14:45 RCS
|   drwxr-xr-x  6 root    root   4096 Dec 11 09:47 X11
|   drwxr-xr-x  2 root    root   4096 Jan 29 16:11 abcde
|   drwxr-xr-x  4 root    root   4096 Feb 24 11:19 acpi
`----

What should show $ if my cursor is on say Consolekit (a subdirectory of
/etc right?) ?

What should show M-$ (cursor anywhere)?

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Thierry Volpiatto
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