bug#22561: 25.0.90; dired alphabetic sort of listing handles leading '.' strangely on MS Windows

[Kevin Gallagher]

On 2/5/2016 3:58 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2016 12:00:53 -0800 (PST)
> > From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> > Cc: kevin.gal@verizon.net, 22561@debbugs.gnu.org
> >
> > > > >    *** The ls-lisp package uses `string-collate-lessp' to sort file
> > > names.
> > > > >    If you want the old, locale-independent sorting, customize the new
> > > > >    option `ls-lisp-use-string-collate' to a nil value.
> > > > >
> > > > > OK to close this bug?
> > > > Why was the default behavior changed?
> > > Because it's a better default.
> > Why?  What supporting reasons?
> It's closer to what Emacs does on GNU/Linux.  It is also closer to
> what the Windows Explorer does.
>
> > Was there discussion about that, or did someone just decide
> > it without discussion?
> There were lots of discussions when this was introduced.
OK, since the change is documented, I agree it is clearly not a bug.  
But I would submit that, when using Emacs on Windows, having dired 
display a directory precisely the same way Windows Explorer displays it 
is a better default. To accomplish this, the following two 
customizations suffice.

In the Ls Lisp group, do the following:

-- toggle   Ls Lisp Uca Like Collation     to off (nil)
-- toggle   Ls Lisp Dirs First                    to on (non-nil)



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