Modify file sort by name in vim netrw plugin (old version) in Cygwin?
.everyoneloves__top-leaderboard:empty,.everyoneloves__mid-leaderboard:empty,.everyoneloves__bot-mid-leaderboard:empty{ height:90px;width:728px;box-sizing:border-box;
}
Due to security, tight control of user rights, and understaffed IT, I have very limited opportunities to upgrade my Cygwin installation. I am using netrw version v149 plugin for vim, which sorts files like so:
20181217.1904+20190101.1954.zip*
20181217.1904+20190102.1731.zip
20181217.1904.zip*
I find this odd, since bash lists the files like so:
20181217.1904.zip*
20181217.1904+20190101.1954.zip*
20181217.1904+20190102.1731.zip
In both cases, the sort is by file name, in ascending order. However, the netrw sort seems to treat the "+" character as preceding ".", while the reverse is true in the bash sort.
I find the latter to be much more useful, and wonder how it is that the plugin is using a different character precedence. Is there a simple and pain-free way to get the second sorting scheme in netrw v.149?
vim cygwin netrw
asked Jan 3 at 22:14
user36800user36800
689418
add a comment |
Due to security, tight control of user rights, and understaffed IT, I have very limited opportunities to upgrade my Cygwin installation. I am using netrw version v149 plugin for vim, which sorts files like so:
20181217.1904+20190101.1954.zip*
20181217.1904+20190102.1731.zip
20181217.1904.zip*
I find this odd, since bash lists the files like so:
20181217.1904.zip*
20181217.1904+20190101.1954.zip*
20181217.1904+20190102.1731.zip
In both cases, the sort is by file name, in ascending order. However, the netrw sort seems to treat the "+" character as preceding ".", while the reverse is true in the bash sort.
I find the latter to be much more useful, and wonder how it is that the plugin is using a different character precedence. Is there a simple and pain-free way to get the second sorting scheme in netrw v.149?
vim cygwin netrw
asked Jan 3 at 22:14
user36800user36800
689418
For me, bothlsand netrw sort like in your first output. ASCII+(decimal 43) comes before ASCII.(decimal 46), so this looks fine to me. I don't think there's anything wrong with netrw, nor that you can influence that particular behavior there.
– Ingo Karkat
Jan 9 at 10:31
Hope I wasn't implying that netrw was wrong. The different sort behaviours were just an observation, with the second one being more useful for me. You might be right about there being no way to change the netrw behaviour. I'd be more certain of that, however, if I knew what was behind the difference in behaviour.
– user36800
Jan 10 at 19:19
add a comment |
Due to security, tight control of user rights, and understaffed IT, I have very limited opportunities to upgrade my Cygwin installation. I am using netrw version v149 plugin for vim, which sorts files like so:
20181217.1904+20190101.1954.zip*
20181217.1904+20190102.1731.zip
20181217.1904.zip*
I find this odd, since bash lists the files like so:
20181217.1904.zip*
20181217.1904+20190101.1954.zip*
20181217.1904+20190102.1731.zip
In both cases, the sort is by file name, in ascending order. However, the netrw sort seems to treat the "+" character as preceding ".", while the reverse is true in the bash sort.
I find the latter to be much more useful, and wonder how it is that the plugin is using a different character precedence. Is there a simple and pain-free way to get the second sorting scheme in netrw v.149?
vim cygwin netrw
asked Jan 3 at 22:14
user36800user36800
689418
Due to security, tight control of user rights, and understaffed IT, I have very limited opportunities to upgrade my Cygwin installation. I am using netrw version v149 plugin for vim, which sorts files like so:
20181217.1904+20190101.1954.zip*
20181217.1904+20190102.1731.zip
20181217.1904.zip*
I find this odd, since bash lists the files like so:
20181217.1904.zip*
20181217.1904+20190101.1954.zip*
20181217.1904+20190102.1731.zip
In both cases, the sort is by file name, in ascending order. However, the netrw sort seems to treat the "+" character as preceding ".", while the reverse is true in the bash sort.
I find the latter to be much more useful, and wonder how it is that the plugin is using a different character precedence. Is there a simple and pain-free way to get the second sorting scheme in netrw v.149?
vim cygwin netrw
vim cygwin netrw
asked Jan 3 at 22:14
user36800user36800
689418
asked Jan 3 at 22:14
user36800user36800
689418
edited Jan 4 at 5:00
user36800
asked Jan 3 at 22:14
user36800user36800
689418
asked Jan 3 at 22:14
user36800user36800
689418
asked Jan 3 at 22:14
user36800user36800
689418
689418
For me, bothlsand netrw sort like in your first output. ASCII+(decimal 43) comes before ASCII.(decimal 46), so this looks fine to me. I don't think there's anything wrong with netrw, nor that you can influence that particular behavior there.
– Ingo Karkat
Jan 9 at 10:31
Hope I wasn't implying that netrw was wrong. The different sort behaviours were just an observation, with the second one being more useful for me. You might be right about there being no way to change the netrw behaviour. I'd be more certain of that, however, if I knew what was behind the difference in behaviour.
– user36800
Jan 10 at 19:19
add a comment |
For me, bothlsand netrw sort like in your first output. ASCII+(decimal 43) comes before ASCII.(decimal 46), so this looks fine to me. I don't think there's anything wrong with netrw, nor that you can influence that particular behavior there.
– Ingo Karkat
Jan 9 at 10:31
Hope I wasn't implying that netrw was wrong. The different sort behaviours were just an observation, with the second one being more useful for me. You might be right about there being no way to change the netrw behaviour. I'd be more certain of that, however, if I knew what was behind the difference in behaviour.
– user36800
Jan 10 at 19:19
For me, both
ls and netrw sort like in your first output. ASCII + (decimal 43) comes before ASCII . (decimal 46), so this looks fine to me. I don't think there's anything wrong with netrw, nor that you can influence that particular behavior there.– Ingo Karkat
Jan 9 at 10:31
For me, both
ls and netrw sort like in your first output. ASCII + (decimal 43) comes before ASCII . (decimal 46), so this looks fine to me. I don't think there's anything wrong with netrw, nor that you can influence that particular behavior there.– Ingo Karkat
Jan 9 at 10:31
Hope I wasn't implying that netrw was wrong. The different sort behaviours were just an observation, with the second one being more useful for me. You might be right about there being no way to change the netrw behaviour. I'd be more certain of that, however, if I knew what was behind the difference in behaviour.
– user36800
Jan 10 at 19:19
Hope I wasn't implying that netrw was wrong. The different sort behaviours were just an observation, with the second one being more useful for me. You might be right about there being no way to change the netrw behaviour. I'd be more certain of that, however, if I knew what was behind the difference in behaviour.
– user36800
Jan 10 at 19:19
add a comment |
1 Answer
1
active
oldest
votes
This can be done. Like open say the directory which contains these files in vim. Then:
Use the r key to set Reverse sorting order.
Then press the s key to sort using a particular style : by name, time or file size.
Hope this helps you somehow mate.
EDIT : If you want to persist say the reverse order and the particular style all the time, then add these to your vim config file :
let g:netrw_sort_by="time" "this chooses the style of sorting
let g:netrw_sort_direction="reverse" "this persists reverse sorting
answered Jan 4 at 2:08
YedhinYedhin
61819
I'm sorry, but I don't think I was explicit enough in my question. I've added a paragraph explaining that both schemes sort by name in ascending order, but the punctuations seem to be treated differently.
– user36800
Jan 4 at 5:02
add a comment |
Your Answer
StackExchange.ifUsing("editor", function () {
StackExchange.using("externalEditor", function () {
StackExchange.using("snippets", function () {
StackExchange.snippets.init();
});
});
}, "code-snippets");
StackExchange.ready(function() {
var channelOptions = {
tags: "".split(" "),
id: "1"
};
initTagRenderer("".split(" "), "".split(" "), channelOptions);
StackExchange.using("externalEditor", function() {
// Have to fire editor after snippets, if snippets enabled
if (StackExchange.settings.snippets.snippetsEnabled) {
StackExchange.using("snippets", function() {
createEditor();
});
}
else {
createEditor();
}
});
function createEditor() {
StackExchange.prepareEditor({
heartbeatType: 'answer',
autoActivateHeartbeat: false,
convertImagesToLinks: true,
noModals: true,
showLowRepImageUploadWarning: true,
reputationToPostImages: 10,
bindNavPrevention: true,
postfix: "",
imageUploader: {
brandingHtml: "Powered by u003ca class="icon-imgur-white" href="https://imgur.com/"u003eu003c/au003e",
contentPolicyHtml: "User contributions licensed under u003ca href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/"u003ecc by-sa 3.0 with attribution requiredu003c/au003e u003ca href="https://stackoverflow.com/legal/content-policy"u003e(content policy)u003c/au003e",
allowUrls: true
},
onDemand: true,
discardSelector: ".discard-answer"
,immediatelyShowMarkdownHelp:true
});
}
});
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
StackExchange.ready(
function () {
StackExchange.openid.initPostLogin('.new-post-login', 'https%3a%2f%2fstackoverflow.com%2fquestions%2f54030524%2fmodify-file-sort-by-name-in-vim-netrw-plugin-old-version-in-cygwin%23new-answer', 'question_page');
}
);
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
1 Answer
1
active
oldest
votes
1 Answer
1
active
oldest
votes
active
oldest
votes
active
oldest
votes
This can be done. Like open say the directory which contains these files in vim. Then:
Use the r key to set Reverse sorting order.
Then press the s key to sort using a particular style : by name, time or file size.
Hope this helps you somehow mate.
EDIT : If you want to persist say the reverse order and the particular style all the time, then add these to your vim config file :
let g:netrw_sort_by="time" "this chooses the style of sorting
let g:netrw_sort_direction="reverse" "this persists reverse sorting
answered Jan 4 at 2:08
YedhinYedhin
61819
I'm sorry, but I don't think I was explicit enough in my question. I've added a paragraph explaining that both schemes sort by name in ascending order, but the punctuations seem to be treated differently.
– user36800
Jan 4 at 5:02
add a comment |
This can be done. Like open say the directory which contains these files in vim. Then:
Use the r key to set Reverse sorting order.
Then press the s key to sort using a particular style : by name, time or file size.
Hope this helps you somehow mate.
EDIT : If you want to persist say the reverse order and the particular style all the time, then add these to your vim config file :
let g:netrw_sort_by="time" "this chooses the style of sorting
let g:netrw_sort_direction="reverse" "this persists reverse sorting
answered Jan 4 at 2:08
YedhinYedhin
61819
I'm sorry, but I don't think I was explicit enough in my question. I've added a paragraph explaining that both schemes sort by name in ascending order, but the punctuations seem to be treated differently.
– user36800
Jan 4 at 5:02
add a comment |
This can be done. Like open say the directory which contains these files in vim. Then:
Use the r key to set Reverse sorting order.
Then press the s key to sort using a particular style : by name, time or file size.
Hope this helps you somehow mate.
EDIT : If you want to persist say the reverse order and the particular style all the time, then add these to your vim config file :
let g:netrw_sort_by="time" "this chooses the style of sorting
let g:netrw_sort_direction="reverse" "this persists reverse sorting
answered Jan 4 at 2:08
YedhinYedhin
61819
This can be done. Like open say the directory which contains these files in vim. Then:
Use the r key to set Reverse sorting order.
Then press the s key to sort using a particular style : by name, time or file size.
Hope this helps you somehow mate.
EDIT : If you want to persist say the reverse order and the particular style all the time, then add these to your vim config file :
let g:netrw_sort_by="time" "this chooses the style of sorting
let g:netrw_sort_direction="reverse" "this persists reverse sorting
answered Jan 4 at 2:08
YedhinYedhin
61819
edited Jan 4 at 2:15
answered Jan 4 at 2:08
YedhinYedhin
61819
answered Jan 4 at 2:08
YedhinYedhin
61819
answered Jan 4 at 2:08
YedhinYedhin
61819
61819
I'm sorry, but I don't think I was explicit enough in my question. I've added a paragraph explaining that both schemes sort by name in ascending order, but the punctuations seem to be treated differently.
– user36800
Jan 4 at 5:02
add a comment |
I'm sorry, but I don't think I was explicit enough in my question. I've added a paragraph explaining that both schemes sort by name in ascending order, but the punctuations seem to be treated differently.
– user36800
Jan 4 at 5:02
I'm sorry, but I don't think I was explicit enough in my question. I've added a paragraph explaining that both schemes sort by name in ascending order, but the punctuations seem to be treated differently.
– user36800
Jan 4 at 5:02
I'm sorry, but I don't think I was explicit enough in my question. I've added a paragraph explaining that both schemes sort by name in ascending order, but the punctuations seem to be treated differently.
– user36800
Jan 4 at 5:02
add a comment |
Thanks for contributing an answer to Stack Overflow!
- Please be sure to answer the question. Provide details and share your research!
But avoid …
- Asking for help, clarification, or responding to other answers.
- Making statements based on opinion; back them up with references or personal experience.
To learn more, see our tips on writing great answers.
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
StackExchange.ready(
function () {
StackExchange.openid.initPostLogin('.new-post-login', 'https%3a%2f%2fstackoverflow.com%2fquestions%2f54030524%2fmodify-file-sort-by-name-in-vim-netrw-plugin-old-version-in-cygwin%23new-answer', 'question_page');
}
);
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
For me, both
lsand netrw sort like in your first output. ASCII+(decimal 43) comes before ASCII.(decimal 46), so this looks fine to me. I don't think there's anything wrong with netrw, nor that you can influence that particular behavior there.– Ingo Karkat
Jan 9 at 10:31
Hope I wasn't implying that netrw was wrong. The different sort behaviours were just an observation, with the second one being more useful for me. You might be right about there being no way to change the netrw behaviour. I'd be more certain of that, however, if I knew what was behind the difference in behaviour.
– user36800
Jan 10 at 19:19