From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 22561@debbugs.gnu.org, kevin.gal@verizon.net
Subject: bug#22561: 25.0.90; dired alphabetic sort of listing handles leading '.' strangely on MS Windows
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2016 23:58:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83powau8dc.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3bd92480-455a-487e-b19d-b25f5f290a03@default> (message from Drew Adams on Fri, 5 Feb 2016 12:00:53 -0800 (PST))
> Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2016 12:00:53 -0800 (PST)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Cc: kevin.gal@verizon.net, 22561@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> > > > *** The ls-lisp package uses `string-collate-lessp' to sort file
> > names.
> > > > If you want the old, locale-independent sorting, customize the new
> > > > option `ls-lisp-use-string-collate' to a nil value.
> > > >
> > > > OK to close this bug?
> > >
> > > Why was the default behavior changed?
> >
> > Because it's a better default.
>
> Why? What supporting reasons?
It's closer to what Emacs does on GNU/Linux. It is also closer to
what the Windows Explorer does.
> Was there discussion about that, or did someone just decide
> it without discussion?
There were lots of discussions when this was introduced.
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