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

[Trying to do something about my Dired backlog.]

>>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen J Turnbull <[email protected]> writes:

Stephen> For the Dired maintainers, Uwe's original post:

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

Stephen> I prefer the Linux way, is there a way of configure the function 
Stephen> appropriately?
Stephen> ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Stephen> I suggesting futzing with dir switches, but apparently that's not how
Stephen> it works.

That is how it works: Dired simply uses whatever the underling ls
offers.  Under Windows, a special built-in function
`mswindows-insert-directory' gets used which only offers a fixed order
for sorting by date off the "-t" option.  The real question is whether
we should change the default order.

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Cheers =8-} Mike
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