Subject: bug#20739: 25.0.50; Dired switches have no effect when explicit list of files provided

From: Drew Adams <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2015 01:34:40 -0700 (PDT)

emacs -Q

Given two files whose names are a.el and b.el, with b.el more recent
than a.el.

M-: (dired '("foo" "a.el" "b.el") "-lstF")

The files are listed in alphabetic order, not by date as specified by
arg SWITCHES and as indicated in the mode line.

Hitting `s' any number of times has no effect on the order of the
files.  But it updates the mode line in a misleading way, saying
alternately that the files are ordered by dated.

In GNU Emacs 25.0.50.1 (i686-pc-mingw32)
 of 2014-10-20 on LEG570
Bzr revision: 118168 [email-masked]
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
Configured using:
 `configure --enable-checking=yes,glyphs CPPFLAGS=-DGLYPH_DEBUG=1'