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24.3.92; ls-lisp: Sorting; make ls-lisp-string-lessp a normal function?

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Message #68 received at 18051 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 18051 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
Subject: Re: bug#18051: 24.3.92; ls-lisp: Sorting;
 make ls-lisp-string-lessp a normal function?
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 08:18:08 +0200

Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de> 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.

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