On 10 August 2007 16:09, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> * Phil Betts (Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:04:11 +0100)
>> Thorsten Kampe wrote on Friday, August 10, 2007 2:21 PM::
>>> These resources don't contradict the info file but state the same.
>>> Fact is that d under Cygwin ignores ~/.d.conf while under Linux it works
>>> as expected.
>> If you put "hidden-files = true" in ~/.d.conf it works as advertised.
>
> Phil, please, you don't know what you're talking about and you don't
> know what I and Ronald were talking about.
Thorsten, he may or may not know what you're talking about, but your statement
"d under Cygwin ignores ~/.d.conf "
is demonstrably incorrect (see my previous post for that demonstration), and
since you wrote (back at the start of the thread):
> I have therefore put
>
> hidden-files-shown=true
>
> into my ~/.d.conf,
and since I have demonstrated it works fine if you put "hidden-files=true" into
your .d.conf instead, this all makes it pretty clear that there is an error in
the manual. From the info page, section "Configuration files":
`hidden-files-shown'
Boolean option, the same as the command line option
`--hidden-files-shown'. *Note Command Line Options::.
From the info page, section "Command line options"
`--hidden-files'
`-H'
Include hidden files in output. These are files with a leading
period in their name. This defaults to OFF. Use `-H' (`-H+') or
`--hidden-files=true' on the command line, or `hidden-files=true'
in the configuration file, to turn it on.
Please read more carefully. Phil has correctly picked up on the difference
between "hidden-files=" and "hidden-files-shown=". The man page is
inconsistent, but it does get it right in one place.
My guess is that the option used to be called "hidden-files-shown" both on
the command line *and* in the config file, and somebody decided the "-shown"
was superfluous, and removed it, and they only fixed up one part of the manual
and forgot to take care of the other.
cheers,
DaveK
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