helm-find-files: hide dotted lines

[manuel-uberti]

Is it possible to hide the the first two lines? I don't need . and .. when using helm-find-files. I already set helm-ff-skip-boring-files to t.

[thierryvolpiatto]

Manuel Uberti [email protected] writes:

shot

Is it possible to hide the the first two lines?

No.

Thierry
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[manuel-uberti]

Ok, thanks.

[justmytwospence]

A variable for this, or at least being able to add these to helm-boring-file-regexp-list would be nice

[thierryvolpiatto]

Spencer Boucher [email protected] writes:

A variable for this, or at least being able to add these to
helm-boring-file-regexp-list would be nice

Have been asked several times and the answer is no.

Thierry
https://emacs-helm.github.io/helm/

[zeroDivisible]

Have been asked several times and the answer is no.

@thierryvolpiatto I'm wondering - would you maybe know why the answer here is "no"? I'm genuinely curious what would be the reason for that?

[thierryvolpiatto]

Michal Stolarczyk [email protected] writes:

Have been asked several times and the answer is no.

@thierryvolpiatto I'm wondering - would you maybe know why the answer
here is "no"?

They are used internally by helm-find-files for navigation, thus they
are needed for compatibility with empty directories on all platforms
(e.g Windows works very badly without them, contrarily to what emacs
developers think).

Remember that helm-find-files (despite its name) is a file/directory
browser, not a tool to find files (like locate or find) and when
browsing a directory dotted files are part of the files of this
directory, and the only files in it when directory is empty.

IOW don't expect I (the author of helm-find-file) will remove them from
the listing :-)

Thierry
https://emacs-helm.github.io/helm/