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

From: Michael Heerdegen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 08:18:08 +0200

Michael Heerdegen <[email-masked]> writes:

> | (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.
Being 1:1 ls compatible has many advantages, but it makes dired
unusually inflexible compared to other Emacs packages.  That's why I
said I wished ls-lisp - or some other configurable mechanism - would be
the default.  I didn't think of Tramp when I said that.