From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juanma Barranquero Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Sorting of directories in dired Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 12:11:58 +0200 Message-ID: References: <42CC7021.5050606@student.lu.se> <42CCD07F.5010509@student.lu.se> Reply-To: Juanma Barranquero NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1120732796 18412 80.91.229.2 (7 Jul 2005 10:39:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 10:39:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 07 12:39:47 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DqTmx-0004vX-6h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2005 12:39:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DqToI-0007Bw-Jz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2005 06:40:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DqTPG-0007zX-5E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2005 06:14:58 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DqTPD-0007yL-NT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2005 06:14:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DqTNm-0006tr-3I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2005 06:13:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [64.233.182.200] (helo=nproxy.gmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DqTSo-0004FA-HP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2005 06:18:38 -0400 Original-Received: by nproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id d4so32326nfe for ; Thu, 07 Jul 2005 03:11:58 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=OBUxqbXC9LKWVkr8G7s0rs4HIfKXQ9w1wKCq7zUGvfI9JN39iMtJG0LkF+EbjnEqsb8RDq4AnOh/8gSntL5Ex8DY7PH/vt5PmNGR/n8a2MhRuyH8XfUv+CWJX6+RnMBUP3t7RfYJZxHCMGKt6PRRvGJAcWBNdC+DU1vZImHROPo= Original-Received: by 10.48.143.11 with SMTP id q11mr20369nfd; Thu, 07 Jul 2005 03:11:58 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.48.250.5 with HTTP; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 03:11:58 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: Edward O'Connor In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:40547 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:40547 On 7/7/05, Edward O'Connor wrote: > I love how Emacs > is a consistent environment across the various operating systems it > runs on, and would much prefer it for the default Dired behavior to > continue to be the same across all supported systems. That's the eternal tension between making things "right" and making them "easy". Using the Windows defaults on Windows would be more helpful to new users; I'd say it makes sense to lean towards the newbie's side, if any. That said, I really have no opinion one way or the other. I don't find the current situation particularly bad. --=20 /L/e/k/t/u