Re: ls -v is irritating

[Sven Joachim]

On 2009-02-24 11:13 +0100, Kamil Dudka wrote:

> On Monday 23 February 2009 22:12:48 Sven Joachim wrote:
>> I just upgraded coreutils from 6.12 to 7.1, and the new sorting behavior
>> of `ls -v' really irritates me.  Backup files are listed before the real
>> files, parent directory (..) at the very end...  At first I thought that
> ls -v means "sort by version". In ascending order you have older versions 
> before the newer. And the backed up version is the older version of the file, 
> isn't it?

Good point, okay.  But for hidden files this gets completely messed up,
because .foo is listed _before_ all non-hidden files and .foo~ _after_
them.  This is really annoying.

>> but it is not reflected in the manual node
>> (Info "(coreutils) More details about version sort").
> Indeed. I'll write a patch to update Texinfo documentation.

Thank you.

Sven