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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: hober0@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Sorting of directories in dired
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 23:21:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ud5punwgg.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42CD881D.6080905@student.lu.se> (message from Lennart Borgman on Thu, 07 Jul 2005 21:53:01 +0200)

> 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.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-07-07 21:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-07  9:55 Sorting of directories in dired LENNART BORGMAN
2005-07-07 16:32 ` Edward O'Connor
2005-07-08 20:59   ` Johan Bockgård
2005-07-07 17:56 ` Alex Schroeder
2005-07-07 20:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-07-07 19:53   ` Lennart Borgman
2005-07-07 21:21     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2005-07-07 20:44       ` Lennart Borgman
2005-07-07 22:43         ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-07-07 22:06           ` Lennart Borgman
2005-07-08 10:28             ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-07-07 20:00   ` Drew Adams
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-07-06 23:58 Lennart Borgman
2005-07-07  0:13 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-07-07  6:49   ` Lennart Borgman
2005-07-07  8:02     ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-07-07  8:28       ` Edward O'Connor
2005-07-07 10:11         ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-07-07 12:24           ` David Kastrup
2005-07-07 20:37         ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-07-08  1:12         ` Bill Wohler
2005-07-07 16:43     ` Drew Adams
2005-07-07 21:08       ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-07-07 20:35         ` Drew Adams
2005-07-07 22:41           ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-07-07 22:53             ` Drew Adams
2005-07-08 10:58               ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-07-08 17:40             ` Richard M. Stallman

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