[X Newbies] Printing a list of items

[Alex]

On Tuesday, Jun 1, 2004, at 14:00 Canada/Eastern, VS wrote:

>  [...] when I copy everything in a listed folder like this and paste 
> it the items get pasted in no specific order. It's not alphabetical, 
> not reverse alphabetical, not creation time or any other known order, 
> just random. [...]

Believe or not, it's a feature, not a bug... well, actually it's a 
turkey (design flaw). The order isn't random, but it's not anything 
useful to you. There's a partial work-around: switch to Column view 
before copying. The pasted list will be sorted by item name. It's 
partial, because this way you don't get a recursive listing.

> So it's not useful at all for me, sadly.

If you need this, use another solution -- such as ls.

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