jwright@cfht.hawaii.edu (Jim Wright) (03/14/91)
I've stumbled across the /.hidden file. Where is this documented? In particular I would like to make some but not all of the subdirectories of /usr visible. Any ideas? This is in NS2.0. -- Jim Wright jwright@cfht.hawaii.edu Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Corp.
scott@texnext.gac.edu (Scott Hess) (03/15/91)
In article <jwright.668951660@cfht.hawaii.edu> jwright@cfht.hawaii.edu (Jim Wright) writes:
I've stumbled across the /.hidden file. Where is this documented?
I'm not sure that it is in 2.0. It was in 1.0, somewhere, I think . . .
In particular I would like to make some but not all of the
subdirectories of /usr visible. Any ideas?
You can have a .hidden file in any directory. In this file is a list
of "things" in that directory that you want hidden in the Workspace
and Open/Save panels ("things" means files and directories). Just
a simple flat list, a file per line.
This doesn't affect Expert view, I think.
Later,
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scott hess scott@gac.edu
Independent NeXT Developer GAC Undergrad
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"I smoke the nose Lucifer . . . Banana, banana."jwright@cfht.hawaii.edu (Jim Wright) (03/20/91)
I wrote: >I've stumbled across the /.hidden file. Where is this documented? In >particular I would like to make some but not all of the subdirectories >of /usr visible. Any ideas? Thanks for the responses. From NextAnswers, workspace.325: The .hidden file controls WHICH files are shown only to UNIX Experts, in addition to the dot files. There can be a .hidden file in any directory; each .hidden file only applies to the containing directory. Sounds good. And it works exactly that way in the / directory. But I can't get it to work in any subdirectory. If I edit /.hidden, then go to the File Viewer and press command-u, the viewer updates itself to reflect the changes. However no changes to /usr/.hidden seem to have any effect. The workspace.325 file says this applies to both 1.0 and 2.0. I can't get it to work in 2.0. I just got 1.0a and haven't tried it there yet. -- Jim Wright jwright@cfht.hawaii.edu Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Corp.