Can't figure out robust cursor-placement-after-sorting logic about vim-dirvish

[justinmk]

Filtering and sorting are definitely popular requests. The philosophy is not intended to be dogmatic, rather it's a sense that solving the hitherto observed quirks, if possible, will be much more valuable because it will provide "best practices" for extending the plugin beyond whatever might be built-in.

A potential compromise is to provide richer events and/or context flags.

a custom autocmd, to be run between buffer content generation and cursor placement

Yes, something like that.

[justinmk]

The new g:dirvish_mode feature should solve this nicely (let me know if not). Try this:

:let g:dirvish_mode = ':sort'

g:dirvish_mode takes a couple options or an arbitrary ex command. See :help g:dirvish_mode.

[chiphogg]

This works terrifically well for sorting folders ahead of everything else. Thanks!

let g:dirvish_mode = ':sort! | :sort! r /[/]$/'