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

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: 36110 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#36110: find-dired not sorted on any field nor provides a way
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2019 20:12:14 -0400

Glenn Morris wrote:

>> +@code{'("-exec ls -ld @{@} +" . "-ld")}
>
> Oh, I see you've changed it to the "+" form.
> It looks like this does give sorted output, but I find it surprising.
> Is it assured?

I verified on a directory with a large number of files that the output
is not sorted. (I didn't see how it could be, given how find works.)
But it does appear as if individual "chunks" are sorted, which can give
the appearance of the whole output being sorted if you don't have a lot
of files.
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