This package provides ways to quickly sort dired buffers in various ways. With `savehist-mode' enabled (strongly recommended), the last used sorting criteria are automatically used when sorting, even after restarting Emacs. A hydra is defined to conveniently change sorting criteria. For a quick setup, Add the following configuration to your "~/.emacs" or "~/.emacs.d/init.el": (require 'dired-quick-sort) (dired-quick-sort-setup) This will bind "S" in dired-mode to invoke the quick sort hydra and new Dired buffers are automatically sorted according to the setup in this package. See the document of `dired-quick-sort-setup` if you need a different setup. It is recommended that at least "-l" should be put into `dired-listing-switches'. If used with dired+, you may want to set `diredp-hide-details-initially-flag' to nil. To make full use of this extensions, please make sure that the variable `insert-directory-program' points to the GNU version of ls. To comment, ask questions, report bugs or make feature requests, please open a new ticket at the issue tracker . To contribute, please create a merge request at .