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 11:01:28 -0700 Message-ID: <87a9abroxz.fsf@stevenarntson.com> References: <87bnur98wa.fsf@stevenarntson.com> <87ha4jvy8z.fsf@web.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1400695344 9751 80.91.229.3 (21 May 2014 18:02:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 18:02:24 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 21 20:02:17 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 1WnAqG-0004iY-PZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 May 2014 20:02:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33009 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WnAqG-0000pM-A7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 May 2014 14:02:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48743) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WnApp-0000ah-QP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 May 2014 14:01:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WnApi-0001mK-ST for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 May 2014 14:01:49 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:51385) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WnApi-0001mG-MN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 May 2014 14:01:42 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WnAph-0003r6-AJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 May 2014 20:01:41 +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 ; Wed, 21 May 2014 20:01:41 +0200 Original-Received: from steven by 97-126-85-177.tukw.qwest.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 21 May 2014 20:01:41 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 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:NRu9sCSUIuIN8Wx2EgG/Cqbgx1A= 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:97780 Archived-At: Michael Heerdegen writes: > Steven Arntson writes: > >> file.org.~001~ >> file.org.~002~ > > BTW, if your problem is about how your backup files are sorted in dired, > have a look at the ls -v flag (sort by version) - it works with dired. > > Michael. Hi Michael, 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? Thank you! steven