* Dave Korn (Fri, 10 Aug 2007 16:19:22 +0100) > 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.
Ronald and me were talking about the configuration file .d.conf being ignored- and not about d not showing hidden dot files. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
