bug#18051: 24.3.92; ls-lisp: Sorting; make ls-lisp-string-lessp a normal function?

[Michael Heerdegen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> Or are you just saying that you want to see the attributes of the
> target, and _also_ the fact that the file is a symlink?

Yes, exactly.

> This just means that we should have an easy way of switching between
> the -L view and the non-L view.  Would that solve the problem?

That would not be bad, although personally I would prefer one view
providing all relevant information, even when that's not ls conform.

But even more important would be to an easy way to sort by size and
such.