Subject: Re: bug#36110: find-dired not sorted on any field nor provides a way

From: Juri Linkov <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2019 23:28:46 +0300

> 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.

Long ago I customized find-ls-option to this value

  (setq find-ls-option '("-exec ls -ld {} \\;" . "-ld"))

and forgot about such problems because this value produces
the same output as Dired.