RE: Dired: configure displayed file/folder details

[Drew Adams]

> > Basically, dired use "ls" command as its input.
> > You can try to customize "dired-listing-switches" variable to
> suit your needs
> > for example:
> > (setq dired-listing-switches "-l")  ;; hide .hiding file
>
> Does anybody know how to sort directories before or after regular
> files with ls options or does some trick in dired exist for this kind
> of sorting?

This doesn't answer your `ls' question, but if you use MS Windows then you
can do what you want with library `dired-sort-menu.el'. I use also
`dired-sort-menu+.el'. Key `/' toggles sorting directories first.

http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/DiredSortMenu