Re: Viewing hidden files

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 12:24, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote:
> I find my self regularly changing whether to view hidden files or not,
> and doing all this make me wonder why one is not able to toggle this
> directly from the 'View' menu.
> 
> This would also relieve some of the initial stress from newbies who
> haven't figured out the whole deal about "hidden" files :-) They would
> quickly discover that there's something called hidden files.

Yes. This is on the todo list. There is a patch in bugzilla, but that
one did it the wrong way (don't remember the details, it was a long time
since i reviewed it). What we want to do is to introduce a pre-window
show-hidden-files property and toggle that, not change the global
setting.


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