How to have Emacs ignore Case and list Dirs first with dired-sort-menu

How to have Emacs ignore Case and list Dirs first with dired-sort-menu

[Uwe Ziegenhagen]

Hello, i use the foolwing line in my .emacs to have Emacs ignore Case 
and list directories first when in the dir mode.

The options are saved but not laoded by default, so i have to toggle 
between saved and actual each time. How can i have Emacs (or load these 
options when starting)

I even set (setq ls-lisp-dirs-first t) and (setq ls-lisp-ignore-case t), 
but this is ignored.


Uwe

; http://centaur.maths.qmw.ac.uk/Emacs/

(add-hook 'dired-load-hook
(lambda () (load-library "ls-lisp")))

(add-hook 'dired-load-hook
(lambda () (require 'dired-explore)))

(add-hook 'dired-load-hook
(lambda () (require 'dired-sort-menu)))

; this should do it, but somehow doesn't work
;
(setq ls-lisp-dirs-first t)
(setq ls-lisp-ignore-case t)

  '(dired-sort-menu-saved-config (quote ((dired-actual-switches . "-al") 
(ls-lisp-ignore-case . t) (ls-lisp-dirs-first . t))))

Re: How to have Emacs ignore Case and list Dirs first with dired-sort-menu

[Ehud Karni]

On Thu, 26 Dec 2002 21:46:28 +0100, Uwe Ziegenhagen <isestd14@wiwi.hu-berlin.de> wrote:
> 
> I even set (setq ls-lisp-dirs-first t) and (setq ls-lisp-ignore-case t), 
> but this is ignored.
> 
> 
> (add-hook 'dired-load-hook
> (lambda () (load-library "ls-lisp")))
> 
> [snip]
> 
> ; this should do it, but somehow doesn't work
> ;
> (setq ls-lisp-dirs-first t)
> (setq ls-lisp-ignore-case t)

You are setting the variables before their package is loaded. (when
`ls-lisp' is loaded they get default values according to your OS).

Do something like this:

(defun my-dired-changes ()
   "Set my preferences for dired"
    (require 'ls-lisp)  
    (require 'dired-explore)       ;I don't find these 
    (require 'dired-sort-menu)     ;packages in 21.2
    (setq ls-lisp-dirs-first t)
    (setq ls-lisp-ignore-case t))

(add-hook 'dired-load-hook 'my-dired-changes)

That will load the packages after the `dired' is loaded and THEN set
the needed variables.

Ehud.


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