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Re: sorting by filename with find-dired


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: sorting by filename with find-dired
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 17:18:47 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux)

>> Is it possible to teach find-dired to sort its output by filename
>> the way that ls and thus dired work by default? 
> find-dired works asynchronously.

Right.

> You obviously can't sort by filename until all the output has arrived.

Not sure why you think it's "obvious".  We could have a process filter
that inserts each output lines at the right place.  Clearly more work,
but seems far from impossible.


        Stefan




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