From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2016 10:27:53 +0000 (+0200) Subject: ; Better document changes in ls-lisp default behavior X-Git-Tag: emacs-25.0.91~79 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c32c16f875c989bde31d2b1fd80b23bdec4d54fa;p=emacs.git ; 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) --- diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS index 975c26cf70d..bd3ddad5b1d 100644 --- a/etc/NEWS +++ b/etc/NEWS @@ -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',