Question

How to sort by extension, but ignore case?

Answer 1

There is no way to do that at the moment, sorting by extension always takes case into account.

Comments

Xaizek, thanks for your quick answer.

I like to sort my files by extension.
But some software changes the case of its working files - arbitrarily, especially under Windows.

For example, we have the following files sorted by ext:
01.jpg 02.jpg 03.jpg

After edit&save 02.jpg (in some photoeditor) we've got:
02.JPG 01.jpg 03.jpg

But such sorting is bad.
Much more better would be the following:
01.jpg 02.JPG 03.jpg

In fact, there is no matter - 'jpg' or 'JPG'.

So, if possible, could you add this feature?
I hope, it's not too hard.
And/or a feature to change the case of extension only (like 'gu' hotkey).

And thank you very much for VIFM!

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Yes, typically case of extensions shouldn't matter, not sure why it's taken into account. Could be for some historical reason. Maybe it's safe to change it.

And/or a feature to change the case of extension only (like 'gu' hotkey).

Vim has some advanced substitutions like the following:

%s/\.[^.]*$/\L&\E

which you can use to make extensions lowercase after running :rename command.

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Yes, now I use just that method - rename in Vim.
Slightly different:
%s/\.\w\+$/\L\0

But case-insensitive extensions would be a nice option.
The rest of VIFM is perfect!
Thanks!