Using dired-sort-menu with ang-ftp

[Jay Bingham]

About a year ago I discovered an anomaly with Dr. Francis Wright's 
dired-sort-menu when requesting a directory via dired on a remote system using 
ange-ftp before first obtaining a directory on the local machine.  When I did 
this I would get an error similar to the following:

dired-sort-menu-remote-p: Args out of range: 1, 5

I have just found time to investigate this and have discovered that the cause 
of this was the suggestion in the comments of dired-sort-menu that the 
following statement be placed in the init file:

(add-hook 'dired-mode-hook
        (lambda () (require 'dired-sort-menu)))

This is not correct for two reasons:
First, the dired-sort-menu will not be required until the end of running the 
dired-mode function.
Second, the require will be run each time that the dired-mode function is run, 
that is every time a dired buffer is created (it will only be loaded once).

The correct way to include dired-sort-menu is to place one of the following in 
your init file:

(require 'dired-sort-menu)

(load "dired-sort-menu")

(add-hook 'dired-load-hook
        (lambda () (require 'dired-sort-menu)))

(add-hook 'dired-load-hook
        (lambda () (load "dired-sort-menu")))

The first two always load dired-sort-menu, the third and forth load it only 
when dired mode is loaded.

Happy Emacsing y'all
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J_)
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