Instead of viewing dired buffers with files sorted by name, I want to view it with directories at the top followed by files grouped by extension (and then filename). Is there any package to install to do that? How do I set up my config?
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You can use this:
(setq dired-listing-switches "-lX --group-directories-first") The X option makes it sorted by extension. Basically you can just google whatever ls option you want, and then set dired-listing-switches accordingly.
- This doesn't seem to work under Windows.SabreWolfy– SabreWolfy2019-05-16 11:35:56 +00:00Commented May 16, 2019 at 11:35
Library dired-sort-menu.el lets you do this (and more): just choose Extension in the Sort By submenu of menu Subdir. (Subdir is Dir in Dired+.)
See also library dired-sort-menu+.el.
You can set dired-listing-switches to "-l --group-directories-first", and then toggle sorting by extension (and other keys) with:
(mapc (lambda (elt) (define-key dired-mode-map (car elt) `(lambda () (interactive) (dired-sort-other (concat dired-listing-switches ,(cadr elt)))))) '(([(control f3)] "" "by name") ([(control f4)] " -X" "by extension") ([(control f5)] " -t" "by date") ([(control f6)] " -S" "by size") ([(control shift f3)] " -r" "by reverse name") ([(control shift f4)] " -rX" "by reverse extension") ([(control shift f5)] " -rt" "by reverse date") ([(control shift f6)] " -rS" "by reverse size"))) 