[emacs/dired] use the ls-lisp ls emulation & sort directories first

alternatively, one could add GNU ls’s --group-directories-first to
dired-listing-switches, but the drawback of that would be that folder
symlinks wouldn’t be grouped together with the rest of the directories

Reported to the coreutils list:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2018-12/msg00017.html

diff --git a/init.org b/init.org
index 049eaa8..1eb94d8 100644 (file)
--- a/init.org
+++ b/init.org
@@ -1071,10 +1071,14 @@ TODO: break this giant source block down into individual org sections.
   (global-diff-hl-mode)
   (add-hook 'magit-post-refresh-hook 'diff-hl-magit-post-refresh t))
 
+(use-package ls-lisp
+  :custom (ls-lisp-dirs-first t))
+
 (use-package dired
   :defer t
   :config
-  (setq dired-listing-switches "-alh")
+  (setq dired-listing-switches "-alh"
+        ls-lisp-use-insert-directory-program nil)
 
   ;; easily diff 2 marked files
   ;; https://oremacs.com/2017/03/18/dired-ediff/