title: is there an emacs tool to show a directory structure as a tree?
body: <p>I am aware of Speedbar (I prefer the structure in the same frame as the rest of my work), and dired shows too much information. I'm after something like the svn-status tree representation. Is there anything like that?
  Thank you.</p>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT</strong>: Here's what I found the most intuitive:</p>
  
  <p>I am using <code>Speedbar</code> with the following hack from <a href="http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SpeedBar#toc2" rel="noreferrer">here</a>. I had to use the commented "try this" part, FYI.</p>
  
  <pre><code>  (require 'speedbar)
    (defconst my-speedbar-buffer-name "SPEEDBAR")
    ; (defconst my-speedbar-buffer-name " SPEEDBAR") ; try this if you get "Wrong type argument: stringp, nil"
    (defun my-speedbar-no-separate-frame ()
      (interactive)
      (when (not (buffer-live-p speedbar-buffer))
        (setq speedbar-buffer (get-buffer-create my-speedbar-buffer-name)
              speedbar-frame (selected-frame)
              dframe-attached-frame (selected-frame)
              speedbar-select-frame-method 'attached
              speedbar-verbosity-level 0
              speedbar-last-selected-file nil)
        (set-buffer speedbar-buffer)
        (speedbar-mode)
        (speedbar-reconfigure-keymaps)
        (speedbar-update-contents)
        (speedbar-set-timer 1)
        (make-local-hook 'kill-buffer-hook)
        (add-hook 'kill-buffer-hook
                  (lambda () (when (eq (current-buffer) speedbar-buffer)
                               (setq speedbar-frame nil
                                     dframe-attached-frame nil
                                     speedbar-buffer nil)
                               (speedbar-set-timer nil)))))
      (set-window-buffer (selected-window) 
                         (get-buffer my-speedbar-buffer-name)))
  </code></pre>