[bug #18767] Panel sort order: fallback to name

[Egmont Koblinger <INVALID NOREPLY gnu org>]

Follow-up Comment #4, bug #18767 (project mc):

Thanks for the patch.

I know about "ls -U", but I think the audience of "ls" and "mc" might be a
little bit different. For the "ls" command it might be considered as a
filesystem debug option, or an option that can speed up scripts where the
order isn't important and there are a lot of files in a directory, or ls is
invoked many times. MC is rather a user-oriented, interactive application
with much more overhead (e.g. always stat()s all the files) which implies
that a little bit of extra overhead (sorting) is not a big issue, and it's
definitely faster if mc sorts the filenames than if the user finds the
requested file in an unsorted list. And I don't think anyone interested in
the filesystem order would use mc, they'd use ls. Anyway, it's not an
important issue at all, I was just interested in others' opinions. Of course
I don't mind if this option remains there, even though I can't see use of
it.


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