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bug#16533: 24.3.50; "s" no longer works as documented in dired
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Glenn Morris |
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bug#16533: 24.3.50; "s" no longer works as documented in dired |
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Sat, 25 Jan 2014 20:31:44 -0500 |
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Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> The problem here seems to be that dired-sort-toggle blindly adds the
> "-t" flag to dired-actual-switches, although in this case the sorting
> is not by date at all. I don't understand the logic here; it seems
> like dired-sort-toggle assumes without testing that the directory is
> sorted either by date or by name, which is of course false.
>
> Is it a portable assumption that the last switch that determines the
> sorting order overrides all the previous ones? If so, ls-lisp.el
> should be fixed to implement that requirement. But if not, we need to
> fix dired.el not to put more than one sorting option into
> dired-actual-switches. In particular, the logic in dired-sort-toggle
> seems to be flawed.
Duh, I seem to have been very thick here, since the original report
seems clear now. I guess I missed the 'then press "s"'.
I guess it is not a portable assumption, since presumably whatever
crappy ls Mac OS X uses does not work that way.
Prior to r101356, dired-sort-toggle removed dired-ls-sorting-switches.
Now it seems not to. That change was made to fix another bug,
http://debbugs.gnu.org/6987