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Provide an option to sort file names starting with underline before all other...
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RESOLVED: MOVED
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enhancement

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Description Adalbert.Hanssen 2020-03-10 11:16:31 CET
Currently file names starting with an underline are sorted as if the underline would not be there.

However it is customary to let file names begin with an underline character to let them be shown at the top of a directory sorted by names.
Comment 1 alexxcons editbugs 2020-03-12 00:04:51 CET
Thanks for reporting !

(In reply to Adalbert.Hanssen from comment #0)
> Currently file names starting with an underline are sorted as if the
> underline would not be there.
> 
> However it is customary to let file names begin with an underline character
> to let them be shown at the top of a directory sorted by names.
I checked nemo, nautilus, caja, dolphin, ls and dir.
From these, only dolphin sorted underscores first ... so it seems to be not that customary.

However I would use it ;)  ... as opt-in hidden option, it would be ok for me.

I dont have time to work on it in the near future, patches would be very welcome !
Comment 2 Git Bot editbugs 2020-05-26 23:48:52 CEST
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Bug #16524

Reported by:
Adalbert.Hanssen
Reported on: 2020-03-10
Last modified on: 2020-05-26

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