Re: new ls option: --group-directories-first

[Francesco Montorsi]

Jim Meyering ha scritto:
> > Just one little question about this patch: are you sure not to add a
> > short option for --group-directories-first ?
>
> For now, yes.  It would take a strong argument to go against the
> `no new short option names' policy for ls, especially considering
> the alternative mentioned below.
Ok

> > --group-directories-first is already in my ls aliases ;)
> > but in this month I had to use other linuxes where those aliases were
> > not defined, and I realized that typing --group-directories-first for
> > such a useful feature is IMHO really annoying...
>
> Did you know that you can abbreviate that option with `--g',
> since there is no other long option name starting with `g'?
No I didn't - that's very useful; thanks !

Francesco