From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
To: "積丹尼 Dan Jacobson" <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Cc: 36110@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36110: find-dired not sorted on any field nor provides a way
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2019 00:30:05 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r27xglua.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tvd2p7gi.5.fsf@jidanni.org> ("積丹尼 Dan Jacobson"'s message of "Fri, 07 Jun 2019 08:25:33 +0800")
>>> Long ago I customized find-ls-option to this value
>>>
>>> (setq find-ls-option '("-exec ls -ld {} \\;" . "-ld"))
>>>
>>> and forgot about such problems because this value produces
>>> the same output as Dired.
>>
>> Same here, although with this (minor) difference:
>>
>> ("-exec ls -ld {} \";\"" . "-ld")
>>
>> Dunno where I got that or when I customized the value to it.
>
> That's because nobody documented it in (info "(emacs) Dired and Find") !
>
> So somebody please document it, else who likes going around with their
> find-dired in "ls -U" order? What sense would that make?
The following patch documents it:
diff --git a/doc/emacs/dired.texi b/doc/emacs/dired.texi
index 9f454ea2ad..2befcf1bbd 100644
--- a/doc/emacs/dired.texi
+++ b/doc/emacs/dired.texi
@@ -1340,7 +1340,9 @@ Dired and Find
The format of listing produced by these commands is controlled by
the variable @code{find-ls-option}. This is a pair of options; the
first specifying how to call @command{find} to produce the file listing,
-and the second telling Dired to parse the output.
+and the second telling Dired to parse the output. To sort file names
+lexicographically, you can customize @code{find-ls-option} to the value
+@code{'("-exec ls -ld @{@} +" . "-ld")}
@findex locate
@findex locate-with-filter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-13 21:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-05 23:27 bug#36110: find-dired not sorted on any field nor provides a way 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2019-06-06 20:28 ` Juri Linkov
2019-06-06 21:21 ` Drew Adams
2019-06-07 0:25 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2019-06-13 21:30 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2019-06-13 23:40 ` Glenn Morris
2019-06-14 0:12 ` Glenn Morris
2019-06-14 6:26 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-06-14 19:09 ` Juri Linkov
2019-06-14 19:10 ` Juri Linkov
2019-06-14 6:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-14 19:12 ` Juri Linkov
2019-06-14 6:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-15 22:36 ` Juri Linkov
2019-06-16 2:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-16 8:37 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-06-16 14:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
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