bug#6261: enable sorting by version in `ls-lisp-handle-switches'

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Toru TSUNEYOSHI <t_tuneyosi@hotmail.com> writes:

> [ resent from
>   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2010-03/msg00206.html ]
>
> Hello.
>
> I made a function sorting by version in `ls-lisp-handle-switches', by
> setting `dired-listing-switches' to "-alv".
>
> At first, I made `string-version-lessp', by referring to
> `glibc-2.11.1/string/strverscmp.c'.
> But I was not satisfied with the spec.
> So I made another function `string-logical-lessp'.

This has just been implemented on the Emacs trunk (but we haven't
decided when or where to enable it yet).

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