Ignore file extension when sorting the files in the explorer

emarthinsen commented 2 years ago

Please select if your request is either something new or an enhancement

[X] Enhancement of an existing Feature.
[ ] Request of a new feature.

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[ ] Onboard. Initial vault setup and import/export pods
[ ] Create. Note creation, lookup, snippets and templates
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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe

This isn't a problem, just some odd behavior. In the file Explorer, the filenames are sorted with the file extension as part of the name. In my case, I have some files that relate to a project. The are currently sorted like this:

proj.en.website.charter.md
proj.en.website.md
proj.en.website.scope.md

Describe the solution you'd like

I'd like sorting to ignore the extension. In this case, the files above would end up being sorted like this:

proj.en.website.md
proj.en.website.charter.md
proj.en.website.scope.md

Describe alternatives you've considered

It's workable as-is, just a bit suboptimal.

hikchoi commented 2 years ago

The file explorer is not a Dendron contributed feature.

I believe you can control how to sort this through explorer.sortOrder property in vscode.

Please do let us know once you resolve the issue.

emarthinsen commented 2 years ago

Thanks @hikchoi. I suspected that might be the case. Unfortunately, there is no option for explorer.sortOrder that would sort while ignoring the file extension. It's more of an annoyance than anything else, so I probably won't pursue this any further.

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