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Re: customized name sorting in dired


From: Kevin Rodgers
Subject: Re: customized name sorting in dired
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 10:33:24 -0700
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Florian von Savigny wrote:
> What puzzles me is how to get dired to sort the names by using this
> sort routine. I have tried to pass dired its first argument as (cons
> DIRNAME <sorted list>), and add the listing switches "lU" but that
> seems to be a misapprehension of its usage (I get an error message
> about dired trying to open the first entry of the list and saying it
> has not found that directory).

I'm not familiar with the ls -U option (a GNU extension?), but calling
dired like that works for me in Emacs 21.3 on Solaris.  Perhaps you
could post your code and the resulting error message.

--
Kevin Rodgers


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