bug#29766: 25.3; REGRESSION, Dired on MS Windows, switches -alF

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 12:44:20 -0800 (PST)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Cc: 29766@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > > 1. The #...# files are missing.
> > >
> > > 2. The .* (dot) files are missing.
> > 
> > They are not missing here, at least not in some 2 random directories I
> > tried, so maybe this is something specific to your system.
> 
> You're right.  Those files are mixed in with the others, instead
> of being clumped together at the beginning.  My directory listing
> is large, and I didn't notice these few files as they were lost
> in the sea of "normal" files.
> 
> So I guess you can close this bug.

Done.

> >   *** The ls-lisp package uses 'string-collate-lessp' to sort file names.
> >   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.
> 
> Thanks.  Yes, changing the option value to nil solves
> everything.
> 
> Why the longstanding default behavior changed?

Because it makes Dired on Windows sort in the order that's much more
similar to what it does on GNU/Linux (where 'ls' produces such an
ordering by default in popular locales).