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

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From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 36110 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Subject: bug#36110: find-dired not sorted on any field nor provides a way
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2019 22:12:07 +0300

>> Anyway, this issue has been very recently fixed in bug#29513
>> (of which this is a duplicate) via find-dired-refine-function.
>> So I suggest not documenting the above.
>
> We could document both ways.
>
> Btw, the commit which fixed bug#29513 didn't call out the change in
> NEWS, let alone in the manual, so we should definitely improve the
> docs regarding this issue anyway.

Also I see no way to disable its default value with something like:

diff --git a/lisp/find-dired.el b/lisp/find-dired.el
index 2c76179da0..c563ae533a 100644
--- a/lisp/find-dired.el
+++ b/lisp/find-dired.el
@@ -123,7 +138,10 @@ find-dired-refine-function
 output of `find' (one file per line) when this function is called."
   :version "27.1"
   :group 'find-dired
-  :type 'function)
+  :type '(choice (const :tag "Sort file names lexicographically"
+                        find-dired-sort-by-filename)
+                 (function :tag "Refining function")
+                 (const :tag "No refining" nil)))
 
 (defvar find-args nil
   "Last arguments given to `find' by \\[find-dired].")

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