From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steven Arntson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: numbered backups Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 15:37:22 -0700 Message-ID: <87a9aabvx9.fsf@stevenarntson.com> References: <87bnur98wa.fsf@stevenarntson.com> <87ha4jvy8z.fsf@web.de> <87a9abroxz.fsf@stevenarntson.com> <87oayqlvxb.fsf@web.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1400711895 20938 80.91.229.3 (21 May 2014 22:38:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 22:38:15 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 22 00:38:06 2014 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 1WnF9A-0003E4-4G for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 May 2014 00:38:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33908 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WnF99-0007ZW-Es for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 May 2014 18:38:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53747) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WnF8s-0007ZI-Vi for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 May 2014 18:37:53 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WnF8m-0007pj-NE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 May 2014 18:37:46 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:55311) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WnF8m-0007pQ-Gb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 May 2014 18:37:40 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WnF8l-0002bw-Ng for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 22 May 2014 00:37:39 +0200 Original-Received: from 97-126-85-177.tukw.qwest.net ([97.126.85.177]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 22 May 2014 00:37:39 +0200 Original-Received: from steven by 97-126-85-177.tukw.qwest.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 22 May 2014 00:37:39 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 97-126-85-177.tukw.qwest.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:5bxqEWQiRky9HCK9z+KkQ5LrPqI= 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:97784 Archived-At: Michael Heerdegen writes: > Steven Arntson writes: > >> Yes, that's exactly the behavior I'm looking for! I tried it in eshell, >> and it worked perfectly. How do I get dired to act like that? > > You just need to set the default value of `dired-listing-switches' > accordingly and add the -v flag, e.g. > > (setq-default dired-listing-switches "-ahlv") > > But also note: when I used that some while ago (now I use always version > control), I saw that -v was incompatible or didn't work so nicely with > some other ls options - I don't know the details anymore. But in > general, it works well with dired, also s (`dired-sort-toggle-or-edit') > should work ok with it. > > Michael. I added "v" through the customize menu, and it seems to be working perfectly. Thank you very much! -Steven