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Re: ls needs switch to put directories on top


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: ls needs switch to put directories on top
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 13:29:01 +0300

On 21 Jun 2001, Dan Jacobson wrote:

> ls needs a switch to put directories on top.

You mean, you suggest to add such an option, right?  ``Needs'' is 
something else: it means it cannot be useful without it.

> On Windows putting directories on top is a default.

A very stupid and annoying default, IMHO.

> If there was a handy switch, I could pass
> it to emacs' (dired DIRNAME &optional SWITCHES)

The next release of Emacs can optionally do that on DOS and Windows 
systems, even though `ls' cannot.



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