Re: numbered backups

[Steven Arntson]

Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:

> Steven Arntson <steven@stevenarntson.com> writes:
>
>> Yes, that's exactly the behavior I'm looking for! I tried it in eshell,
>> and it worked perfectly. How do I get dired to act like that?
>
> You just need to set the default value of `dired-listing-switches'
> accordingly and add the -v flag, e.g.
>
>     (setq-default dired-listing-switches "-ahlv")
>
> But also note: when I used that some while ago (now I use always version
> control), I saw that -v was incompatible or didn't work so nicely with
> some other ls options - I don't know the details anymore.  But in
> general, it works well with dired, also s (`dired-sort-toggle-or-edit')
> should work ok with it.
>
> Michael.

I added "v" through the customize menu, and it seems to be working
perfectly. Thank you very much!

-Steven