[aplusdev] boring files

[Josef Sachs]

>>>>> On Mon, 8 Oct 2001 15:42:59 -0400 (EDT), Seth Breidbart said:

> xemacs, in dired mode, shows files it considers boring in grey.  How
> can I convince it that *.a files are not boring?  (I can change the
> color scheme for boring files, but that's not what I want; some files,
> like *~, really are boring.)

How about putting the following in your .emacs file?  (Please don't ask
me to explain this.)

(delete ".a" completion-ignored-extensions)