Re: Costumising the colours in Dired

[David Hansen]

On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 13:21:40 +0100 Andreas Christiansen wrote:

> Dired is kind enough to display the LaTeX files you don't want to keep 
> (.aux, .log, etc) in a different colour, while the .tex files are 
> displayed using the ordinary colour. That makes it easy to clean up all 
> unwanted files.
>
> However, the .pdf files is displayed in the same colour as the files you 
> want to remove, while the .ps files are displayed using the ordinary 
> colour. I want to swap colour for these two types of files. How do I do 
> that?

(setq completion-ignored-extensions 
  (remove ".pdf" completion-ignored-extensions))

(add-to-list 'completion-ignored-extensions ".ps")

As you may have already guessed this has side effects when
completing file names.

David