From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#21284: 25.0.50; `completion-file-name-table' should/not use `nreverse'? Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2016 21:50:05 +0300 Message-ID: <8337oqtan6.fsf@gnu.org> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1465239210 19172 80.91.229.3 (6 Jun 2016 18:53:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2016 18:53:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 21284@debbugs.gnu.org, mbork@mbork.pl, npostavs@users.sourceforge.net To: Keith David Bershatsky Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 06 20:53:19 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1b9zeI-0002eS-RV for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Jun 2016 20:53:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44558 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b9zeE-0006bc-NO for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Jun 2016 14:53:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58054) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b9ze7-0006ZP-U0 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jun 2016 14:53:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b9ze2-0002as-KT for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jun 2016 14:53:06 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:44689) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b9ze2-0002ao-HA for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jun 2016 14:53:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1b9ze2-00077X-DA for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jun 2016 14:53:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2016 18:53:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 21284 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: unreproducible Original-Received: via spool by 21284-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B21284.146523915227335 (code B ref 21284); Mon, 06 Jun 2016 18:53:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 21284) by debbugs.gnu.org; 6 Jun 2016 18:52:32 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57026 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1b9zdY-00076o-Aa for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jun 2016 14:52:32 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:38769) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1b9zdX-00076d-EB for 21284@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jun 2016 14:52:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b9zdO-0002Qn-Ea for 21284@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jun 2016 14:52:26 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:57231) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b9zce-0002IM-71; Mon, 06 Jun 2016 14:51:36 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:4143 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1b9zcY-0003os-Mv; Mon, 06 Jun 2016 14:51:34 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Keith David Bershatsky on Mon, 06 Jun 2016 09:19:07 -0700) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:119173 Archived-At: > Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2016 09:19:07 -0700 > From: Keith David Bershatsky > Cc: 21284@debbugs.gnu.org,Noam Postavsky ,Marcin Borkowski > > I am on OS X and the default sort order is alphabetic, which gets reversed by `completion-file-name-table` because it uses `nreverse'. Then what exactly is the problem here? Emacs doesn't know in what order the files are returned, it considers the order random. Reversing a randomly ordered list produces another randomly ordered list. Applications that need to present the list in some specific order need to do that explicitly. For example, "C-x C-f TAB TAB" does display the files in alphabetic order for me, not in reverse alphabetic order.