Is there some limit to how many items can be sorted in a directory?

[Andrew15-5]

I have a directory with thousands of files. This is where I wanted to find "10xx" size files for #1098 (comment), so I sorted it by size. Nothing happened. Same for extension. So it's basically a bug unless there is a limit to how many items lf can sort.

So I then manually started scrolling, found one, confirmed that it looks good, and generated a file with that exact size instead. Sorting does work for a small amount of files.

Seems like around 4000 is sortable, but around 8000 is not.

[joelim-work]

Sorting is done in this function:

lf/nav.go

Line 224 in b0c3f8d

func (dir *dir) sort() {

There shouldn't be any limit to the number of files. I'm not sure why sorting (done by set sortby ...) doesn't work for you - you can try debugging to see if that function is actually being called or not.

[Andrew15-5]

I hate this... I cannot reproduce this anymore. I thought it's because of their names that I renamed in a loop. But after restoring the original names, it still sorts by name, date, and size instantly (well, for names there is a slight delay).

Next time, I know where to dig. There is a convenient -log flag too, which is perfect.