5.6.3.1 Dired Enhanced Sorting

Casual Dired offers enhanced sorting capabilities through GNU ls. Use this to sort your Dired buffer to preference. Filter dot files (.*) by disabling the --all option is available here.

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With the Sort By menu raised, one can save the switch settings for future use via the binding C-x C-s (transient-save). Note this is a global setting and will apply to all future calls to the Sort By menu.