Re: .hidden files? what dos that mean?

[James Willcox <jwillcox cs indiana edu>]

Jens,

On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 14:25, Jens Ansorg wrote:
> hi,
> 
> just emerged the latest version of Nautilus (on Gentoo).
> the News tell me
> 
> This is nautilus 2.3.6. The file manager for the Gnome 2 desktop.
> 
> Major changes since 2.3.5 are:
> 
> * .hidden file support
> 
> 
> I went through the list archive but could not find anyting about this
> .hidden stuff.
> What is this about?

It's totally sweet.  You can create a file called ".hidden" in any
directory, and in it list files that you don't want nautilus to show. 
For instance, my ~/.hidden contains "evolution" which causes nautilus to
not show ~/evolution.

James