Omitting Files in Dired

There is a very useful feature when looking at directories in Emacs. It is called DiredOmitMode.

Normally, when you use Ctrl-X d which runs dired on a directory you'll see every file in the directory. Sometimes it is nice to see just the important files and ignore others such as backup and autosave files.

To support this you need to load the dired-x package.

Add the following to your .emacs file.

(require 'dired-x)

With this done, the next time you are viewing a directory try Meta-o. This will run dired-omit-mode and hide the uninteresting files in the dired buffer.

See:

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DiredOmitMode

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