Re: How to have Emacs ignore Case and list Dirs first with dired-sort-menu

On Thu, 26 Dec 2002 21:46:28 +0100, Uwe Ziegenhagen 
<isestd14@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> I even set (setq ls-lisp-dirs-first t) and (setq ls-lisp-ignore-case t), 
> but this is ignored.
> 
> 
> (add-hook 'dired-load-hook
> (lambda () (load-library "ls-lisp")))
> 
> [snip]
> 
> ; this should do it, but somehow doesn't work
> ;
> (setq ls-lisp-dirs-first t)
> (setq ls-lisp-ignore-case t)

You are setting the variables before their package is loaded. (when
`ls-lisp' is loaded they get default values according to your OS).

Do something like this:

(defun my-dired-changes ()
   "Set my preferences for dired"
    (require 'ls-lisp)  
    (require 'dired-explore)       ;I don't find these 
    (require 'dired-sort-menu)     ;packages in 21.2
    (setq ls-lisp-dirs-first t)
    (setq ls-lisp-ignore-case t))

(add-hook 'dired-load-hook 'my-dired-changes)

That will load the packages after the `dired' is loaded and THEN set
the needed variables.

Ehud.


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