Function: dired-sort-toggle-or-edit

dired-sort-toggle-or-edit is an interactive and byte-compiled function defined in dired.el.gz.

Signature

(dired-sort-toggle-or-edit &optional ARG)

Documentation

Toggle sorting by date, and refresh the Dired buffer.

With a prefix argument, edit the current listing switches instead.

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Key Bindings

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/dired.el.gz
(defun dired-sort-toggle-or-edit (&optional arg)
  "Toggle sorting by date, and refresh the Dired buffer.
With a prefix argument, edit the current listing switches instead."
  (interactive "P" dired-mode)
  (when dired-sort-inhibit
    (error "Cannot sort this Dired buffer"))
  (if arg
      (dired-sort-other
       (read-string "ls switches (must contain -l): " dired-actual-switches))
    (dired-sort-toggle)))