On Wednesday, 27 Sep 2017 at 08:02, Charles Millar wrote:

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> I read the documentation and I suppose that there is no way to set
> that variable on a per file basis. Correct?

You could use emacs file variables for this, along the lines of

# -*- org-set-list-allow-alphabetical: nil; -*-

at the top of the file or a local variables list at the end (see Emacs
info manual for more information).

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: Eric S Fraga via Emacs 26.0.50, Org release_9.1-64-g657302