Using dired-sort-menu with ang-ftp

Using dired-sort-menu with ang-ftp

[Jay Bingham]

About a year ago I discovered an anomaly with Dr. Francis Wright's dired-sort-menu when requesting a directory via dired on a remote system using ange-ftp before first obtaining a directory on the local machine.  When I did this I would get an error similar to the following:

dired-sort-menu-remote-p: Args out of range: 1, 5

I have just found time to investigate this and have discovered that the cause of this was the suggestion in the comments of dired-sort-menu that the following statement be placed in the init file:

(add-hook 'dired-mode-hook
        (lambda () (require 'dired-sort-menu)))

This is not correct for two reasons:
First, the dired-sort-menu will not be required until the end of running the dired-mode function.
Second, the require will be run each time that the dired-mode function is run, that is every time a dired buffer is created (it will only be loaded once).

The correct way to include dired-sort-menu is to place one of the following in your init file:

(require 'dired-sort-menu)

(load "dired-sort-menu")

(add-hook 'dired-load-hook
        (lambda () (require 'dired-sort-menu)))

(add-hook 'dired-load-hook
        (lambda () (load "dired-sort-menu")))

The first two always load dired-sort-menu, the third and forth load it only when dired mode is loaded.

Happy Emacsing y'all
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J_)
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Re: Using dired-sort-menu with ang-ftp

[martin]

"JB" == Jay Bingham <b.jc-emacs@netzero.com> writes:
 JB> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
 JB> Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 00:12:02 GMT
 JB> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
 JB> 
 JB> About a year ago I discovered an anomaly with Dr. Francis Wright's
 JB> dired-sort-menu when requesting a directory via dired on a remote
 JB> system using ange-ftp before first obtaining a directory on the local
 JB> machine.  When I did this I would get an error similar to the
 JB> following:
 JB> 
 JB> dired-sort-menu-remote-p: Args out of range: 1, 5
 JB> 
 JB> I have just found time to investigate this and have discovered that
 JB> the cause of this was the suggestion in the comments of
 JB> dired-sort-menu that the following statement be placed in the init
 JB> file:
 JB> 
 JB> (add-hook 'dired-mode-hook
 JB>         (lambda () (require 'dired-sort-menu)))
 JB> 
 JB> This is not correct for two reasons: First, the dired-sort-menu will
 JB> not be required until the end of running the dired-mode function.
 JB> Second, the require will be run each time that the dired-mode function
 JB> is run, that is every time a dired buffer is created (it will only be
 JB> loaded once).
 JB> 
 JB> The correct way to include dired-sort-menu is to place one of the
 JB> following in your init file:
 JB> 
 JB> (require 'dired-sort-menu)
 JB> 
 JB> (load "dired-sort-menu")
 JB> 
 JB> (add-hook 'dired-load-hook
 JB>         (lambda () (require 'dired-sort-menu)))
 JB> 
 JB> (add-hook 'dired-load-hook
 JB>         (lambda () (load "dired-sort-menu")))
 JB> 

Hi,

look at http://centaur.maths.qmw.ac.uk/Emacs/files/dired-sort-menu.el.

It seems to be correct there.

Martin

 JB> The first two always load dired-sort-menu, the third and forth load it
 JB> only when dired mode is loaded.
 JB> 
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 JB> 
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