Re: Sorting of directories in dired

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 21:53:01 +0200
> From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
> CC: hober0@gmail.com,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> >And what, may I ask, do you use outside Emacs?  Isn't it "ls -l"? ;-)
> >
> >  
> >
> Uhm..., I have done that a couple of times...
> 
> Sadly enough I am working mostly from the cmd shell. I have tried for 
> example MSYS sh, but I found that the integration with ms windows is not 
> good enough for me.

??? What does the shell have to do with using `ls'?  You can invoke
`ls' from _any_ shell running on Windows, including from cmd.exe.

> That is also what I have found with my previous tries with Emacs. The 
> documentation has been bad on the windows side so those of us windows 
> only users who survive as Emacs users do that in resistance to the 
> resistance we meet. Everything has taken much, much time. Considering 
> that that time is taken from us who wants to promote free software it 
> seems to me to be a bad strategy not to help users on w32 as much as we 
> can.

I think you are misreading the principle of consistent cross-platform
behavior as ``resistance'' or ``a strategy not to help'' w32 users.