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

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
Cc: 18051 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, michael.albinus <at> gmx.de
Subject: bug#18051: 24.3.92; ls-lisp: Sorting; make ls-lisp-string-lessp a normal function?
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 09:33:58 +0300

> From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
> Cc: michael.albinus <at> gmx.de,  18051 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 08:21:27 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > Doesn't "ls -L" give you that?
> 
> That's worse.  Then I don't even see at all that the file is a symlink,
> it is shown as a regular file.  I had tried that, and found it very
> confusing.

Why is it important to you to know that the file is a symlink, if you
always want to change its target?

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