From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#46240: Sorting order of read-char-by-name Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2021 09:36:02 +0200 Message-ID: <831rdvq84d.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87v9bb4tm2.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <83wnvr65zg.fsf@gnu.org> <875z3aooao.fsf@gnus.org> <87lfc666vr.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87tuqti2kw.fsf@gnus.org> <87bld1hvwg.fsf@gnus.org> <87zh0lq6n8.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87lfc4gtam.fsf@gnus.org> <87zh0kw4n1.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87h7mrq002.fsf@gnus.org> <87pn1fo42e.fsf@mail.linkov.net> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="29677"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: larsi@gnus.org, 46240@debbugs.gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 05 08:37:11 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1l7vfz-0007cm-23 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 05 Feb 2021 08:37:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48992 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l7vfx-0007w0-O7 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 05 Feb 2021 02:37:09 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41832) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l7vfq-0007vl-NB for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Feb 2021 02:37:02 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:59327) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l7vfq-0002K6-ET for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Feb 2021 02:37:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1l7vfq-0003IP-9s for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Feb 2021 02:37:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2021 07:37:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 46240 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 46240-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B46240.161251056612600 (code B ref 46240); Fri, 05 Feb 2021 07:37:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 46240) by debbugs.gnu.org; 5 Feb 2021 07:36:06 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42640 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1l7vev-0003H9-Sf for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 05 Feb 2021 02:36:06 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:51898) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1l7ves-0003Gd-I5 for 46240@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 05 Feb 2021 02:36:05 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:55844) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l7vem-0001iE-NH; Fri, 05 Feb 2021 02:35:56 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:3937 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1l7vem-0002G2-6w; Fri, 05 Feb 2021 02:35:56 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87pn1fo42e.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (message from Juri Linkov on Fri, 05 Feb 2021 00:34:17 +0200) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:199338 Archived-At: > From: Juri Linkov > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , 46240@debbugs.gnu.org > Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2021 00:34:17 +0200 > > > Having the option to sort by names within each block sounds nice to me. > > Oh, then sorting order of sections would need own option. Currently > sections are sorted by section names (i.e. mostly by script names > alphabetically, e.g. "adlam", "aegean-number", "ahom", etc.), > but a new option could sort them by their boundary codepoints > (i.e. "basic-latin", "latin-supplement", "latin-extended"), > so now options are going out of control :) I think we can get away with only one sorting order for sections: alphabetically. Most tools I use that show large regions of Unicode space do that, and I find it very convenient for quickly finding the block I need without having to remember its place in the codepoint order (which is quite random).