Subject: Re: bug#18051: 24.3.92; ls-lisp: Sorting; make ls-lisp-string-lessp a normal function?

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 10:22:42 -0400

>> | (advice-add 'ls-lisp-handle-switches
>> |             :after #'my-ls-lisp-treat-symlinks-ad)
> And I understand that users should not be encouraged to do such things.

Actually, while they're not encouraged, I definitely don't want to
discourage users from using defadvice or advice-add.
It's strongly discouraged within Emacs, and mildly discouraged for
external packages, but it's not discouraged for end-users.

        Stefan