Subject: bug#36110: closed (Re: bug#29513: 25.2; find-dired-centinel)

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Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2019 21:17:03 +0000

Your bug report

#29513: find-dired not sorted on any field nor provides a way

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#29513: 25.2; find-dired-centinel
From: "Roland Winkler" <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2019 16:15:44 -0500
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On Fri Dec 1 2017 Roland Winkler wrote:
> On Fri Dec 1 2017 Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Maybe we should simply provide a defcustom, which is a function called
> > by the sentinel.  Then users could customize what happens after the
> > files are all collected, be it sort the results or anything else.  The
> > advantage will be that we won't need to support every possible tweak
> > of post-processing in core.
> 
> Again: fine with me.  This could be done such that the *Find* buffer
> is narrowed to the portion containing the output of the shell
> command (as in my patch).  Also, as a further option (or default
> value of the defcustom) we could provide a function that sorts by
> file name (thus providing a real-world example of how this new
> defcustom can be used).

See commit 249902d5ad5d3ae3e25323c23a2f442913729ceb.

Subject: find-dired not sorted on any field nor provides a way
From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2019 07:27:44 +0800
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find-dired (info "(emacs) Dired and Find") is great, except it is not
sorted on any field, except coincidentally.
find-ls-option is a variable defined in ‘find-dired.el’, alas it only
governs each line and not how those lines are sorted.
Yes that is how find(1) works, but there should be a filter (default "|
sort ...") that sorts on the last field (name). Those people who prefer
jumbled order could unset it.

P.S., the modeline says (Dired by name:exit) which looks weird.
emacs-version "26.1"