From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: 16533@debbugs.gnu.org, markus.triska@gmx.at
Subject: bug#16533: 24.3.50; "s" no longer works as documented in dired
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 13:22:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8361p8cnll.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c9y525s014.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 13:32:55 -0500
> Cc: 16533@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> Please confirm what the problem actually is - just that it says "by
> date" in the mode line?
I think the problem is that is says "by date", but the actual sorting
is not changed, i.e. it stays by size in this case.
> When it does so, what are the values of
>
> dired-ls-sorting-switches
"SXU"
> dired-sort-by-date-regexp
"\\(\\`\\| \\)-[^- ]*t[^ SXU]*\\(\\(\\`\\| +\\)\\(--[^ ]+\\|-[^- tSXU]+\\)\\)* *$"
> dired-actual-switches
"-alSt"
And the latter is the root cause of the problem, IMO: the -S switch is
not removed from dired-actual-switches.
The problem here seems to be that dired-sort-toggle blindly adds the
"-t" flag to dired-actual-switches, although in this case the sorting
is not by date at all. I don't understand the logic here; it seems
like dired-sort-toggle assumes without testing that the directory is
sorted either by date or by name, which is of course false.
Is it a portable assumption that the last switch that determines the
sorting order overrides all the previous ones? If so, ls-lisp.el
should be fixed to implement that requirement. But if not, we need to
fix dired.el not to put more than one sorting option into
dired-actual-switches. In particular, the logic in dired-sort-toggle
seems to be flawed.
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-24 0:33 bug#16533: 24.3.50; "s" no longer works as documented in dired Markus Triska
2014-01-24 3:10 ` Glenn Morris
2014-01-24 3:13 ` Glenn Morris
2014-01-24 17:23 ` Markus Triska
2014-01-24 18:32 ` Glenn Morris
2014-01-25 11:22 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2014-01-26 1:31 ` Glenn Morris
2014-01-25 11:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
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