Hide dotfiles in dired. To activate this mode add something like this to your init.el: (defun my-dired-mode-hook () "My `dired' mode hook." ;; To hide dot-files by default (dired-hide-dotfiles-mode)) ;; To toggle hiding (define-key dired-mode-map "." #'dired-hide-dotfiles-mode) (add-hook 'dired-mode-hook #'my-dired-mode-hook)