From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: sorting by filename with find-dired
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 17:18:47 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvzi743f3b.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: blpo80zxmm.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org
>> Is it possible to teach find-dired to sort its output by filename
>> the way that ls and thus dired work by default?
> find-dired works asynchronously.
Right.
> You obviously can't sort by filename until all the output has arrived.
Not sure why you think it's "obvious". We could have a process filter
that inserts each output lines at the right place. Clearly more work,
but seems far from impossible.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-29 22:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-29 17:33 sorting by filename with find-dired Roland Winkler
2017-11-29 17:40 ` Drew Adams
2017-11-29 17:57 ` Roland Winkler
2017-11-29 18:58 ` Drew Adams
2017-11-29 19:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-29 19:35 ` Glenn Morris
2017-11-29 20:42 ` Roland Winkler
2017-11-29 22:18 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2017-11-30 3:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
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