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

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From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
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 10:24:46 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Or are you just saying that you want to see the attributes of the
> target, and _also_ the fact that the file is a symlink?

Yes, exactly.

> This just means that we should have an easy way of switching between
> the -L view and the non-L view.  Would that solve the problem?

That would not be bad, although personally I would prefer one view
providing all relevant information, even when that's not ls conform.

But even more important would be to an easy way to sort by size and
such.

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