GNU bug report logs - #36110
find-dired not sorted on any field nor provides a way

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>

Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2019 23:37:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Merged with 29513, 36123

Found in version 25.2

Fixed in version 27.1

Done: "Roland Winkler" <winkler <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #10 received at 36110 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
To: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
Cc: 36110 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#36110: find-dired not sorted on any field nor provides a way
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.
This bug report was last modified 5 years and 342 days ago.

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