The current Sort By menu does not abstract away enough of the ls command line switches. For users who are not familiar with such command line switches this is problematic. For example instead of using the label “all”, it’s probably better to use “Show all (including dot files)”.
Action item is to revisit prefix argument labels to better communicate behavior to a user not familiar with ls. That said, changes should not block a user who is already familiar with ls command line switches.
The current Sort By menu does not abstract away enough of the
ls
command line switches. For users who are not familiar with such command line switches this is problematic. For example instead of using the label “all”, it’s probably better to use “Show all (including dot files)”.https://github.com/kickingvegas/casual-dired/blob/07eeb64dfe576e2926d49cf0a87801a579885785/docs/images/casual-dired-sort-by-screenshot.png
Action item is to revisit prefix argument labels to better communicate behavior to a user not familiar with
ls
. That said, changes should not block a user who is already familiar withls
command line switches.