07 August 2026 Friday

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Dotfiles

The built-in way is dired-omit-mode from dired-x, which you already load. Press C-x M-o in any dired buffer to toggle. Out of the box it only omits ./.. and autosaves; to make it hide dotfiles too:

(setq dired-omit-files (concat dired-omit-files "\\|^\\..*$"))

Alternative: you have a commented-out dired-hide-dotfiles block in your config — it does one thing (dotfiles only, H to toggle), whereas omit-mode is regexp-driven (can also hide *.pyc, #backups#,

whatever). I'd uncomment neither and use omit-mode — you already ship it.

Sorting

s — toggle name ↔ modification time.
The real power move: C-u s prompts for the raw ls switches for that buffer. Since you're on gls, everything works: add -S (size), -X (extension), -t (time), -r (reverse), and your

–group-directories-first keeps dirs on top through all of them. E.g. C-u s → -aghoS –group-directories-first for biggest-first.

If you find yourself doing that constantly, dired-quick-sort gives a one-key sort menu on S, but C-u s may be all you need.

Quality of life

( — toggle dired-hide-details-mode: hides permissions/owner/size columns, just filenames. Try it; most people never go back. (add-hook 'dired-mode-hook #'dired-hide-details-mode) makes it the default.
dired-dwim-target t — also sitting commented-out in your config, and I'd genuinely enable this one: with two dired windows open, C (copy) and R (rename/move) default to the other window's directory.

Two-pane file manager for free.

C-x C-q — wdired: the listing becomes an editable buffer; rename files by editing text (full rectangle/query-replace power), C-c C-c to commit. The killer dired feature if you don't know it.
w copies the filename at point; C-u 0 w copies the absolute path.
t inverts marks; % m marks by regexp; then Q runs query-replace across all marked files.
! / & — run a shell command on the file(s) at point (sync/async).