From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: list files in dired case insensitive order Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 10:57:20 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <7020f55f-f9c1-429c-b22f-4be40198cfe3@q30g2000prq.googlegroups.com> References: <65e31c14-1342-4075-9662-e8810ba7345e@v5g2000prm.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1229363172 20596 80.91.229.12 (15 Dec 2008 17:46:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:46:12 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 15 18:47:16 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LCHWw-0004t0-8j for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:46:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33201 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LCHVj-0006Wj-SA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:45:39 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!q30g2000prq.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs Original-Lines: 44 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.102.50.240 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1229281040 8364 127.0.0.1 (14 Dec 2008 18:57:20 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 18:57:20 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: q30g2000prq.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.102.50.240; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10_4_11; en) AppleWebKit/525.27.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.2.1 Safari/525.27.1, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:165281 comp.emacs:97470 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:20:30 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:60629 Archived-At: On Dec 14, 10:08 am, "Drew Adams" wrote: > > is it possible to order dir/files in dired so that it's case > > insensitive? i.e. i don't want dir or file starting with caps grouped > > together on top. > > There are no doubt several ways. I use these libraries: > dired-sort-menu.el > dired-sort-menu+.el > > http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DiredSortMenu Hi Drew, thanks a lot. I went to http://centaur.maths.qmw.ac.uk/Emacs/ but server not responding. Could you possibly pass me that? Or perhaps put the source on emacswiki? I read on emacswiki that you wrote =E2=80=9Cdired-sort-menu+.el=E2=80=9D to= enhance it. Couldn't you just fork it so it's one single coherent package? my gripe is that there are so many packages to install and massage things. Usually this limit the usefulness to a few emacs diehards. It would be great if dired itself should handle case insensitive ordering, since this is pretty basic. (dired should also do opening several files, which is also a FAQ)... getting stuff into GNU Emacs is really a pain and long process... even though it has became better in the past 5 years. Related: =E2=80=A2 On Unix File System's Case Sensitivity (by Brian Tiemann) http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/_/fileCaseSens.html anyway, thanks a lot for the pointer. Xah =E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/ =E2=98=84