From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: sorting by filename with find-dired Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 17:18:47 -0500 Message-ID: References: <61311.6304.827356.23070@gargle.gargle.HOWL> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1511994054 11620 195.159.176.226 (29 Nov 2017 22:20:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 22:20:54 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 29 23:20:51 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eKAim-0002fM-Vm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Nov 2017 23:20:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45441 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eKAiu-0008RS-87 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Nov 2017 17:20:56 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38809) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eKAiM-0008RB-Ee for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Nov 2017 17:20:23 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eKAiH-0005s1-H6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Nov 2017 17:20:22 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=42081 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eKAiH-0005rN-5x for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Nov 2017 17:20:17 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eKAi5-0008LG-4J for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Nov 2017 23:20:05 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:oRJyPKgEgB2IKMPFNrFcDq4xEHI= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:115142 Archived-At: >> Is it possible to teach find-dired to sort its output by filename >> the way that ls and thus dired work by default? > find-dired works asynchronously. Right. > You obviously can't sort by filename until all the output has arrived. Not sure why you think it's "obvious". We could have a process filter that inserts each output lines at the right place. Clearly more work, but seems far from impossible. Stefan