Redditor sauntcartas offers a nice solution for getting Emacs dired filenames in an arbitrary order. I have to say, while relatively rare, this is something I need from time to time. You see, I like to apply batch file operations from the comfort of dired buffers (via dwim-shell-command). Take, for example, M-x dwim-shell-commands-join-images-horizontally. It does what it says on the tin. I can mark a handful of image files via dired and easily join them into a single file. The problem is tha...
