athityakumar / athityakumar/colorls

Allow sorting of files/dirs ignoring casing

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Description

### Description

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You can see in this screenshot that directories that start with a lowercase letter are sorted alphabetically, accounting for casing. There should be a flag that lets you ignore casing.

This list should be something like this:

```
A...
a...
B...
b...
C...
...
and so on.
```

- Relevant Issues : (none)
- Relevant PRs : (none)
- Type of issue :
- [ ] Installation
- [ ] Font-related
- [x] Feature request
- [ ] Bug in existing feature
- [ ] Developer mode : Code quality / Tests / Documentation

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Research direction

Start by locating the directory-listing sorting logic and the command-line option definitions in colorls. Add the requested opt-in casing behavior and verify that entries are ordered case-insensitively when the flag is used, while existing ordering remains unchanged.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
ruby
Domain
cli
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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