Re: Sorting of directories in dired

[Alex Schroeder <alex@emacswiki.org>]

LENNART BORGMAN schrieb:
> Interesting. I can see your point. However do you use w32? Do you not find it disturbing then that the ordering of files are different in Emacs than outside Emacs on w32?
> Maybe you never leave Emacs? But for newbies who are used to other apps under w32, would it not be easier for them to adopt to Emacs if the default ordering was the same as for other apps? And those of us (I know now) who can change it, can't we just do that?

I use Emacs on OSX, Windows, and Slackware.  I would like it to be as
similar as possible.  That being said, I understand the need to cater
for newbies, and I would not mind people adding an option or minor mode
(or theme) to give Unix, Windows, OSX, or any other system's defaults --
as long as I can use those defaults on all the systems I use.

If we start using the current OS to determine defaults, I will have to
find all these variables myself is a slow process of getting used to the
new Emacs and customizing it.

If instead of using a single variable such as window-system we used
another variable such as window-system-preference that defaults to
window-system, then I could set one variable to get all the defaults right.

custom-themes will not make this job easier, but added functionality
that nobody needs makes the coding and testing very tricky.  But that's
something I said years ago...  eg. here:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/7002

Alex.
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