One annoying feature of many modern development systems and sometimes even single programs is that they hide files or directories in a long, nested series of otherwise empty directories. That is, each directory other than the last contains only a single entry. GitHub has a nice solution for this: they collapse the entire path of otherwise empty directories into a single path. That makes it easy to get to the target without navigating through a bunch of essentially unused directories. <\/p>\n
Fuco1<\/a>, who has little tolerance for such infelicities, has introduced One annoying feature of many modern development systems and sometimes even single programs is that they hide files or directories in a long, nested series of otherwise empty directories. That is, each directory other than the last contains only a … Continue reading dired-collapse-mode<\/code> to bring the same functionality to dired<\/a>. Follow the link to Fuco1’s post to see an example of the mode in action. It’s on Melpa<\/a> so it’s easy to install and try out. If you have a lot of these nested directories ending in a single target, you should give dired-collapse-mode<\/code> a try. You having nothing to lose but your frustration. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"