Re: Proposal: ls-lisp.el handle --group-directories-first flag

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2021 14:13:09 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> > A think to note is that -U will be ignored if --group-directories-first
> > is passed (so does gls).
> 
> Hmm... bother: the need to add -U could be a problem, because users
> don't necessarily want the list to come out unsorted.
> 
> If adding -U is to fix the order of the directories, then how about
> using nreverse on the list of directories instead?

Btw, in my testing, with ls-lisp-dirs-first bound non-nil, the
directories are shown in their correct alphabetically sorted order.
So I'm unsure what problems you saw and in which scenario.  Can you
tell more about this issue?