Re: Is it a mistake to define dired-omit-mode as a minor mode?

[Juri Linkov]

> Maybe the docstring should say what is the preferred way to enable it
> in .emacs?  E.g. (add-hook 'dired-mode-hook (lambda () (dired-omit-mode 1)))

=== modified file 'lisp/dired-x.el'
--- lisp/dired-x.el     2010-01-13 08:35:10 +0000
+++ lisp/dired-x.el     2010-03-25 07:14:18 +0000
@@ -163,7 +163,13 @@ (define-minor-mode dired-omit-mode
 otherwise.  Enabling and disabling is buffer-local.
 If enabled, \"uninteresting\" files are not listed.
 Uninteresting files are those whose filenames match regexp `dired-omit-files',
-plus those ending with extensions in `dired-omit-extensions'."
+plus those ending with extensions in `dired-omit-extensions'.
+
+To enable omitting in every Dired buffer, you can put in your ~/.emacs
+
+  (add-hook 'dired-mode-hook (lambda () (dired-omit-mode 1)))
+
+See Info node `(dired-x) Omitting Variables' for more information."
   :group 'dired-x
   (if dired-omit-mode
       ;; This will mention how many lines were omitted:

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/