sort-ignoredot/sfm-sort-ignoredot-0.3.1.diff

From e358a1d600b87ab97a9e46563277e404fa129e4b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: tdu <tdukv@protonmail.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2021 17:42:11 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Ignore the leading dot character when sorting files by name.
 Can be disabled in config.h. Old: 	.bbb 	aaa 	ccc New: 	aaa 
 .bbb 	ccc

---
 config.def.h | 1 +
 sfm.c        | 8 +++++++-
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/config.def.h b/config.def.h
index 5f322a8..ac332e1 100644
--- a/config.def.h
+++ b/config.def.h
@@ -122,6 +122,7 @@ static const mode_t nf_perm   = S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR;
 
 /* dotfiles */
 static int show_dotfiles = 1;
+static const int sort_ignore_dot = 1;
 
 /* statusbar */
 static const char dtfmt[] = "%F %R"; /* date time format */
diff --git a/sfm.c b/sfm.c
index 9bb21a1..3b9875a 100644
--- a/sfm.c
+++ b/sfm.c
@@ -411,7 +411,13 @@ sort_name(const void *const A, const void *const B)
 	if (data1 < data2) {
 		return -1;
 	} else if (data1 == data2) {
-		result = strncmp((*(Entry *)A).name, (*(Entry *)B).name, MAX_N);
+		char *a = basename((*(Entry *)A).name);
+		char *b = basename((*(Entry *)B).name);
+		if (*a == '.' && sort_ignore_dot)
+			a++;
+		if (*b == '.' && sort_ignore_dot)
+			b++;
+		result = strncmp(a, b, MAX_N);
 		return result;
 	} else {
 		return 1;
-- 
2.33.0