Michael Albinus <michael.albi...@gmx.de> writes: >>>>> I believe it would be helpful to suppress these checks via a user >>>>> option. And no, the checks shouldn't be suppressed for remote >>>>> directories in general, on a fast connection they are valuable. > > I gave it a try, see appended patch.
Thank you for sharing the patch. I haven't tested the patch yet, so my comments below are based on reviewing the code and my experience with the workaround I currently have. > There's a new user option `dired-highlight-symlinks'. If non-nil (the > default), symlinks are highlighted the same way as now. With a nil > value, they aren't. I propose that the non-default behaviour be that `dired-symlink-face' is applied to the entirety of the symlink. If you agree, it might be better to additionally rename `dired-highlight-symlinks' accordingly to reflect the updated behaviour. > You can switch this option on and off globally. However, it would be > better to do this host-wise. For this, we have connection-local > variables. The following code snippet in your ".emacs" switches the > option off for the remote host "remotehost". > > (connection-local-set-profile-variables > 'my-dired-profile > '((dired-highlight-symlinks . nil))) > > (connection-local-set-profiles > '(:application tramp :machine "remotehost") > 'my-dired-profile) > > Comments? TIL about connection-local variables. Yes, this would be helpful. However, if so desired, I imagine that setting `dired-highlight-symlinks' buffer-locally in the `dired-mode-hook' would work as well. Is my understanding correct? -- Suhail
