-t option is tricky

[sbatial]

So I don't think there is a way to make -t the same as in ls.
I don't say it is impossible.
But the best implementation I have right now does work but nevertheless eats the next argument, even if it starts with a -.

The core problem(s) seem(s) to be: -t is not really a shorthand in ls but a dedicated option which is equivalent to --time=modified. And our parser can currently not represent shortform-only options.

I'll have to think about what the best way forward is in my eyes but my gut is that the best way of getting such a feature to work is to make changes to the parser first to have it support short options without a long form.

[cafkafk]

I'll have to think about what the best way forward is in my eyes but my gut is that the best way of getting such a feature to work is to make changes to the parser first to have it support short options without a long form.

This sounds non trivial, I changed the pr to a draft for now.

[sbatial]

As already mentioned over there: this should be much more doable when using clap #195

[sbatial]

Ok.
I'm looking into this right now (based on the clap branch) and I thought I got something wrong at first and we are diverging from ls.
But no - well, yes.. but not in the way I thought - from the ls manpage:

So now the question becomes... Compatibility with ls or sensible options.

I'm currently tending towards the latter. ls is not the newest program anymore as already mentioned in #321.

And although I generally like backwards compatibility I feel like eza is drifting away from being a drop-in-replacement/was never intended to be one the first place.

So my thoughts are right now:

• have -t as a shorthand for --time
• have modified (another divergence from ls which uses mtime) as a default
• find a sensible shorthand for --sort (so something along the lines of -s t would be possible as an alternative)

[cafkafk]

And although I generally like backwards compatibility I feel like eza is drifting away from being a drop-in-replacement/was never intended to be one the first place.

We discussed compatibility on element and one option that has been floating around is to have a flag that turns on a mode that tries to mimic ls, which is what lsd does.

[sbatial]

I had thought about the same thing so yea, I could imagine that 👍