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Re: dired: filenames sorted like on the Macintosh :-(


From: Harry Putnam
Subject: Re: dired: filenames sorted like on the Macintosh :-(
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 20:44:24 -0600
User-agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux)

nospam55 <nospa@no.yahoo.no> writes:

> Hi
>
> my emacs on redhat 8 has an apple-like filename order 
> (dots ignored, char order : AaBb ... )
>
> I would like the classical unix ascii order (first dot, uppercase, lowercase 
> chars etc), 
> how to tell this to emacs?

Its not an emacs only solution but you can set LC_COLLATE in your
environment and I think it will give you what you want.  Should also
make command line `ls' in your shell do the classical unix listing.

in sh like shells:  LC_COLLATE=C;export LC_COLLATE 





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