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sorting files - character before 'a' or 'A' ?
Sometimes I have a file that I always want to be sorting to the top of a folder. I always have sort by name on, and in windows I used to just add an exclamation point before the filename, like "!important.txt" and would know it would be at the top of a folder next time I needed it. In KDE, it doesn't seem to matter what non-character I put first because it gets ignored. Does anybody know if there is a setting to change this such that ! or ^ or anything I can use will make a file go to the top? Or is there a character I maybe haven't tried that comes before 'a'? I could just use 'aimportant' or something but it looks like ass and I'd rather have a non-character first to distinguish these files.
Thanks!
jet
RE: sorting files - character before 'a' or 'A' ?
What about a subdirectory "important"? If your search for important files, you can just enter that directory.
Konqueror does both case-sensitive and case-insensitive sorting. If you use case-sensitive, then items starting with "!" will appear first. You can set case-sensitive sorting by going to the "View"->"Sort" menu and selecting "By Name (Case Sensitive)".
Thanks! I never actually tried the case-sensitive sort because I just assumed the ! and ^ would still be ignored.
Useless fact. Ever wonder why source code always has a README file (and other important files) like that?
It is due to legacy from Unix terminals so that when people used to list directory contents, the important files were listed first (Makefile is another example).
Nick
Hmm, so it seems that all capitalized letters still go first, before ! and other such characters. If anybody knows if there is a preference still for not ignoring non-characters when sorting, please post. I have various examples where this is useful and sorting non-characters first is the default behavior of windows 98/xp etc, and while I'm not saying that is how it should be by default in KDE it would be a nice option (esp for me, since I have dozens of directories organized with that in mind...)
I have the same inconvinience as you... I have all important folders which I want to be at the top of the list with a "_" character (i.e. "_Drivers") but on Konqueror they just omit that character when sorting.
As a work around I have added a cero in front, and it make it work on windows also ("0_Drivers"), although I would prefer simply the "_" or your "!"
Cheers,
Mguel
Sorting
Sorting is case-sensitive or insensitive as pointed out earlier in this thread; the rest of sorting depends on your locale. In many cases, you'll be sorting US-ASCII characters (A-Za-z0-9!_ to name a few) by US-ASCII code point value. In this order, you get ! before the numbers 0-9 before the capitals A-Z before _ before the lowercase a-z. I'm not sure how that interacts with case-insensitive sorting, but it comes down to: files you want at the top get capitals or a !; don't use _, since it sorts after the capitals.
Monday, November 4th 2024, 10:52am
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