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#18051: 24.3.92; ls-lisp: Sorting; make ls-lisp-string-lessp a normal function? Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 18:37:01 +0300 Message-ID: <83lhqaj65e.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87ha2f5gp8.fsf@web.de> <83y4vo4fbr.fsf@gnu.org> <87silwmo8h.fsf@web.de> <83wqb84e7l.fsf@gnu.org> <87iomsgsqg.fsf@gmx.de> <83tx6c44x7.fsf@gnu.org> <87egxggigj.fsf@gmx.de> <877g28w19r.fsf@gmx.de> <83sikvcbqr.fsf@gnu.org> <83r40fc876.fsf@gnu.org> <87wqa7uf7w.fsf@gmx.de> <83oavjc5jj.fsf@gnu.org> <87y4uixleg.fsf@gmx.de> <83sikpc3cd.fsf@gnu.org> <87ha147gd5.fsf@gmx.de> <83a96vmv80.fsf@gnu.org> <87a96vuph7.fsf@gmx.de> <8361hjm7pr.fsf@gnu.org> <8738cnuev3.fsf@gmx.de> <83zjeukkf9.fsf@gnu.org> <878uma2u7y.fsf@gmx.de> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1409153849 19417 80.91.229.3 (27 Aug 2014 15:37:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 15:37:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: michael_heerdegen@web.de, 18051@debbugs.gnu.org To: Michael Albinus Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 27 17:37:21 2014 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 1XMfHk-0000N2-Ni for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Aug 2014 17:37:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60201 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XMfHk-0001Hm-8d for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Aug 2014 11:37:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37707) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XMfHb-0001EC-6l for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Aug 2014 11:37:15 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XMfHS-0005eL-PS for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Aug 2014 11:37:11 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:46796) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XMfHS-0005eG-Lo for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Aug 2014 11:37:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XMfHS-00049G-Bm for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Aug 2014 11:37:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 15:37:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 18051 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 18051-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B18051.140915381915927 (code B ref 18051); Wed, 27 Aug 2014 15:37:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 18051) by debbugs.gnu.org; 27 Aug 2014 15:36:59 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53739 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XMfHO-00048m-HI for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 27 Aug 2014 11:36:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:55364) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XMfHM-00048W-1h for 18051@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 27 Aug 2014 11:36:57 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NAZ00F001IJVX00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for 18051@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 27 Aug 2014 18:36:49 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NAZ00FYB21DNC50@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Wed, 27 Aug 2014 18:36:49 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <878uma2u7y.fsf@gmx.de> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 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-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:92718 Archived-At: > From: Michael Albinus > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , michael_heerdegen@web.de, 18051@debbugs.gnu.org > Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 10:49:05 +0200 > > Stefan Monnier writes: > > >>> An optional argument to string-lessp could be inconvenient. IMHO, the > >>> most important use-case of string-lessp is being a PREDICATE of > >>> sort. This does not support optional arguments. > > > > Of course it does: > > > > (sort foo (lambda (x y) (string-lessp x y 'optional-arg))) > > Yes, but this would also expect optional-arg to be a variable which can > be set by the user. That's similar to what I have proposed, I believe. True. So I suggest to define a new variable, say, string-collate-options, which is a key-value list with up to 2 members: ':locale' (a string), and ':case-fold' (a flag). If the locale's codeset is UTF-8, the collation on Windows will emulate what glibc evidently does. Lisp programs will bind string-collate-options to the value they need. Then we can remove the reference to process-environment from the code of string_collate. WDYT?