Re: Sorting of directories in dired

[Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>>I never use ls outside some sh like shell.
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>Why not?
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I can see faster on the output from cmd:s dir what is a directory for 
example.

>>I think that the necessary integration 
>>with different platforms must not be hampered by the consistent 
>>cross-platform behaviour. I am much in favor of both these things.
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>They contradict.  One must choose one or the other; we cannot have
>both.
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We must be more concrete to be able to decide that. Sometimes they 
contradict, sometimes not. I believe we should strive for both. cua-mode 
is a good example on this. viper-mode another (I happily use both). 
emacsserver/client (or gnuserv/client) are other examples.

>>Since Emacs started its route much have changed. The users on different 
>>platforms now tend to request that applications adhere to what they are 
>>used to.
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>FWIW, I don't see any significant change in users' attitudes.
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Would not you think that most users on w32 expect C-x to be cut? Would 
you not expect the keyboard addicts (like me) to use the Alt-key to 
acces the menus?