Lf: Sort files randomly

[mvrozanti]

Is it currently possible?

[YerinAlexey]

I think, yes. But I have no idea when it could be acutally useful (except just for fun)

[mvrozanti]

I mean, ranger's got it. Maybe that's bloat? It wouldn't make lf generally slow though.

It should be pretty easy to implement but I know nothing about golang so I'm not able to make a PR about this.

As per usefulness, suppose the following scenario: you want to set the wallpaper to a random one but you want to take a look at it first.

[igorhub]

I use this feature for music. So, yeah, just for fun.

Nothing wrong with having some fun, though.

[gokcehan]

With the current structure of the code, sorting order won't be changed again when you set sortby random repeatedly. @mvrozanti Can't you just make use of shuf for that? @igorhub Which music player doesn't have shuffle these days? To be honest, I would want to see set sortby none much before set sortby random.

[igorhub]

@gokcehan mpv over ssh. Well, it has shuffle, but it doesn’t show you the playlist (maybe it can, I just don’t know how to turn it on), so I use the directory as my shuffled playlist.

I’m sure I could solve this "problem" in a more rational way. (Perhaps with cmus, or just by reading mpv’s manpage carefully). I just grabbed the first tool at hand when I first faced this situation, and it proved satisfactory. Without random sort, I’d find another solution. No big deal.

[mvrozanti]

@gokcehan

Can't you just make use of shuf for that?

I guess, but not as quickly :)