setlocal conflicts with other sorting

[simonhughxyz]

When using setlocal for sorting and then change sorting manually afterwards in the same folder it does not sort the folder properly.

Tried with: setlocal ~/Downloads/ sortby time; set info time
Followed by :set sortby size
and set info size to be able to see the sizes.

The expected behavior is for the files to be sorted by file size, but they appear to be shuffled randomly.

[joelim-work]

This is expected behavior:

• set applies to all directories
• setlocal applies to only the specified directory, and takes precedence over set.

Generally setlocal is used for directories for which a particular setting should be 'fixed'. I don't think it's worth adding a third layer of setting which can temporarily override setlocal, but for your case maybe you can try setlocal ~/Downloads/ sortby size.

Also just a note that you can use set info size:time if you want to see both at the same time, if it makes it easier.