I'm not convinced this addresses the feature request. I think the issue opener just wanted to hide the target of the links, not the fact that symlinks even existed. To be honest I'd hesitate to include this. I've seen tons of file manager interfaces that hide hidden files, but can't think of any that completely hide the existence of symlinks. At the very least I'd expect first to have the functionality to hide the targets (which look a little noisy) and only then to consider what the use case is for completely ignoring them.

I'm up for closing this PR, at first it seemed natural to add the ability to hide symlinks, But now that I'm thinking again about it, I think you are right maybe only hiding the linked path is enough

I'll close this for now. We can reconsider if anybody has a use case for it that they want to pitch. Personally I don't have one and can't imagine one, but that doesn't mean one doesn't exist. If we do include something like this it would be nice to know it actually met a need and didn't just add clutter to the docs.

In the mean time an option to hide symlink targets does seem to make sense to me.