Feature request: toggle whether to show hidden files with . globally.

[otakutyrant]

Like #51 (comment) said, the current behavior of . only works locally (directory-specific).

As a contrast, the behavior of zh in joshuto can toggle whether to show hidden files globally as shown in a demostration.

[sxyazi]

Please vote on this or leave your comment

[Gajus84]

I feel that globally is the more common case. At least from my experience with file managers.

And I would vote for that too, I guess.

Of course this depends on the personal workflow, but adjusting my workflow if I just want a "peek" on the dotfiles in a specific folder and it is applied globally vs. the other way around, is much less of an effort.

If globally applied, this would be, if at all, only a problem for that user outside the initial folder and there it needs only one keystroke to hide the files again.
But if applied locally and the user wants/needs to work with dotfiles and has to go through several folders, the effort is much higher aka multible keystrokes.

[sxyazi]

I see, I'll implement it soon

[sxyazi]

Done by #89, take a try!

Now show_hidden is tab-specific, and newly created tabs inherit the previous tab's state, which I think is a reconciliation of convenience and flexibility.

11a.mp4

[otakutyrant]

Altough I do not know what tab is, it is good enough for me presently. I confirm that it works.

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