From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: in reply to my other just-now post about dired which hasn't appeared FWR Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2015 03:21:00 +0200 Message-ID: <87h9m8rblv.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <87h9mbtldn.fsf@debian.uxu> <87lhbm16hm.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1443834945 22683 80.91.229.3 (3 Oct 2015 01:15:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2015 01:15:45 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 03 03:15:36 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZiBQF-0002tf-0O for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2015 03:15:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36359 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZiBQE-0003RA-6I for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Oct 2015 21:15:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58020) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZiBPq-0003AQ-0F for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Oct 2015 21:15:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZiBPl-0001bB-UC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Oct 2015 21:15:09 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:44818) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZiBPl-0001Zd-OG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Oct 2015 21:15:05 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZiBPj-0002NS-8y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2015 03:15:03 +0200 Original-Received: from nl106-137-244.student.uu.se ([130.243.137.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 03 Oct 2015 03:15:03 +0200 Original-Received: from embe8573 by nl106-137-244.student.uu.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 03 Oct 2015 03:15:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: nl106-137-244.student.uu.se Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:r9VlTuyLc6y/VNqye5C+ru/cTE4= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:107491 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg writes: >> You may already know this, but I'll mention it >> anyway, since it took me quite a while to notice, >> so maybe others haven't found it yet either: With >> `C-u s' (that's `dired-sort-toggle-or-edit') you >> can edit the listing switches however you like. >> The change affects only the current buffer. >> I previously used a custom command to select >> a sorting method via `ido' but since discovering >> `C-u s' I've found it's more general and just >> as convenient. > > Right, that is good because it is more general but > it is bad because it is less specific :) `dired-sort-toggle-or-edit' is the way to do it, probably one should do as I did only as an interface to that instead. But what I have is also an interface and in a way more clear as it does that and only that. But `dired-sort-toggle-or-edit' is better because it only affects the current buffer, as you say. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573