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| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2016-02-05 12:27:53 +0200 |
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| committer | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2016-02-05 12:27:53 +0200 |
| commit | c32c16f875c989bde31d2b1fd80b23bdec4d54fa (patch) | |
| tree | 473b954dfaf03e867112ee0a5dabfa0912f6beac | |
| parent | dc6eed2592da9262a9318f49e8ed6cc1f31d5c68 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-c32c16f875c989bde31d2b1fd80b23bdec4d54fa.tar.gz | |
; Better document changes in ls-lisp default behavior
* etc/NEWS: Explain in more detail the effects of the new
default sorting in ls-lisp on Dired display. (Bug#22561)
| -rw-r--r-- | etc/NEWS | 10 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -1553,8 +1553,14 @@ counterparts `string-lessp' and `string-equal'. --- *** The ls-lisp package uses `string-collate-lessp' to sort file names. -If you want the old, locale-independent sorting, customize the new -option `ls-lisp-use-string-collate' to a nil value. +The effect is that, on systems that use ls-lisp for Dired, the default +sort order of the files in Dired is now different from what it was in +previous versions of Emacs. In particular, the file names are sorted +disregarding punctuation, accents, and diacritics, and letter case is +ignored. For example, files whose name begin with a period will no +longer appear near the beginning of the directory listing. If you +want the old, locale-independent sorting, customize the new option +`ls-lisp-use-string-collate' to the nil value. +++ *** The MS-Windows specific variable `w32-collate-ignore-punctuation', |