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Re: Sorting of directories in dired
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: Sorting of directories in dired |
Date: |
Fri, 08 Jul 2005 00:41:12 +0200 |
> From: "Drew Adams" <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 13:35:53 -0700
> Cc: address@hidden
>
> IOW, aside from putting directories first and not being case-sensitive, the
> Windows listing also throws out the uid and gid, which don't mean a lot for
> Windows.
They might not mean a lot now, but that's only because no one bothered
to write the code to use the Windows equivalents of uid and gid. I
hope someone will, and rather sooner than later.
> I'm only pointing out that the defcustom code is a bit silly, wrt Windows.
It's certainly not silly on non-Windows platforms. In the past, I
heard reports of people who were used to ls-lisp and loaded it on
Unix.
> Might as well hard-wire the values for all of these variables (on Windows),
> whatever values you decide upon.
That would make ls-lisp not useful on Unix. So I don't think it's a
good idea.
> That's not the Emacs philosophy, AFAIK. Consistent behavior across
> platforms is deemed more important than consistency with other
> platform-specific applications.
>
> OK. But then why does the code in question attempt to modify the behavior
> for different platforms?
The default behavior is the same. The rest are options, users are
free to customize them if they wish.
> The order used by Windows tools is IMHO stupid and user-unfriendly: it
> assumes, for some reason, that people do not look up directories and
> files together.
>
> Fine. It's stupid and user-unfriendly. And it's what people are used to.
Some people are.
- RE: Sorting of directories in dired, Drew Adams, 2005/07/07
- Re: Sorting of directories in dired, Eli Zaretskii, 2005/07/07
- RE: Sorting of directories in dired, Drew Adams, 2005/07/07
- Re: Sorting of directories in dired, Richard M. Stallman, 2005/07/08
- bug in ls-lisp.el (was: Sorting of directories in dired), Drew Adams, 2005/07/08
- Re: bug in ls-lisp.el (was: Sorting of directories in dired), Eli Zaretskii, 2005/07/08
- RE: bug in ls-lisp.el (was: Sorting of directories in dired), Drew Adams, 2005/07/08