Re: dired-sort-toggle-or-edit behaves different in the win version

For the Dired maintainers, Uwe's original post:

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I presume this is a FAQ, but in windows the function
dired-sort-toggle-or-edit
when called once, but the newest files at the end of the directory
list, while in Linux it is vice versa.

I prefer the Linux way, is there a way of configure the function 
appropriately?
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I suggesting futzing with dir switches, but apparently that's not how
it works.

>>>>> "Uwe" == Uwe Brauer <[email protected]> continues:

    Uwe> adding where and how?

How is easy: use customize (ie, Options > Advanced from the menubar).

Where to look is a good question.  It isn't at all obvious.  You can
use the menus to get to dired either with Options > Advanced > Group
"dired", or with Options > Advanced > Environment > Dired.  However,
in Unix the options are -l for verbose listings and -CF for brief
listings; neither one has a sort option in it.  We'll have to do
something about that.

So evidently the right thing to do is to tell Mike about it.  I've
already done that by CC'ing dired-bugs.

    >> about this kind of thing, and only allowed sorts in one
    >> direction.  To get the other, you had to pipe.

    Uwe> So it not possible to sort the other way around on win9x?

I use Cygwin == Unix programs, not Win9x, when I forced into that
platform.  I'm just guessing from ancient memories of DOS.

Anything's possible; the question is "is it too fragile to be reliable
on Windows?"  Most things seem to be; few Windows commands maintain
the same set of switches and semantics from version to version.


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