Sort directories then files in Dired.

[Oleksandr Gavenko]

ls have option --group-directories-first. But then I set
'dired-listing-switches' to '-al --group-directories-first'
output seems damaged:

 e:/home/devel/autorpg:
total used in directory 1 available 13039040
281474976729852 0drwxrwxrwx 1 sasha Отсутствует 0 2007-09-05 ..
1407374883569819 0drwxrwxrwx 1 sasha Отсутствует 0 2009-08-24 .
1125899906859437 0drwxrwxrwx 1 sasha Отсутствует 0 2009-08-24 .hg
2533274790412740 1-rw-rw-rw- 1 sasha Отсутствует 209 2009-08-24
README
562949953438149 0drwxrwxrwx 1 sasha Отсутствует 0 2009-08-24
very-dumb-game

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[Thamer Mahmoud]

Oleksandr Gavenko <gave...@gmail.com> writes:

I don't use --group-directories-first, sorry. Perhaps you should
consider reporting this as a bug.

As an alternative, I use the following code in ~/.emacs which
essentially does the same thing:

(defun mydired-sort ()
"Sort dired listings with directories first."
(save-excursion
(let (buffer-read-only)
(forward-line 2) ;; beyond dir. header
(sort-regexp-fields t "^.*$" "[ ]*." (point) (point-max)))
(set-buffer-modified-p nil)))

(defadvice dired-readin
(after dired-after-updating-hook first () activate)
"Sort dired listings with directories first before adding marks."
(mydired-sort))

For more sorting options, see:
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DiredSortDirectoriesFirst
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DiredSortMenu

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Thamer

[Drew Adams]

FYI - dired-sort-menu.el and dired-sort-menu+.el give you all kinds of useful
sort orders for Dired.

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DiredSortMenu

[Tim X]

Oleksandr Gavenko <gave...@gmail.com> writes:

You could use the ls-lisp package, which comes with emacs and set
ls-lisp-dirs-first to have the directories listed first in dired. You
may need to add (require 'ls-lisp) to your .emacs

,----[ C-h v ls-lisp-dirs-first RET ]
| ls-lisp-dirs-first is a variable defined in `ls-lisp.el'.
| Its value is t
|
| Documentation:
| Non-nil causes ls-lisp to sort directories first in any ordering.
| (Or last if it is reversed.) Follows Microsoft Windows Explorer.
|
| You can customize this variable.
|
| [back]
`----

Tim

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[Oleksandr Gavenko]

Thanks all for replay.

'dired-listing-switches' not work for me because I use
Emacs on Windows and so 'ls-lisp-use-insert-directory-program'
by default set to 'nil'.

I check 'ls-lisp.el' and found easy solution for my needs.
'ls-lisp-dirs-first' is essential part of them, but
you can find they all useful:

;; If non-nil - use 'insert-directory-program', which I dislike.
(setq ls-lisp-use-insert-directory-program nil)
(setq ls-lisp-ignore-case t)
(setq ls-lisp-dirs-first t)
(if (eq system-type 'windows-nt)
(setq ls-lisp-verbosity nil)
(setq ls-lisp-verbosity '(links uid gid)))
;; Force use 'ls-lisp-format-time-list'.
(setq ls-lisp-use-localized-time-format t)
(setq ls-lisp-format-time-list
'("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M"
"%Y-%m-%d "))

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