From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: 21284@debbugs.gnu.org, esq@lawlist.com, mbork@mbork.pl
Subject: bug#21284: 25.0.50; `completion-file-name-table' should/not use `nreverse'?
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2016 17:43:04 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83mvmytm2v.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM-tV-9x+s3w0Y8xF+Wn4fS8At5LsvWVE-bkK1jyN7Nx86qHgg@mail.gmail.com> (message from Noam Postavsky on Sun, 5 Jun 2016 22:50:10 -0400)
> From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2016 22:50:10 -0400
> Cc: Keith David Bershatsky <esq@lawlist.com>, Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
> I'm getting completions in what looks like a random order, here are
> the first few lines for completions in the emacs src directory:
I suspect that there's a hidden factor here: the order in which the
'readdir' libc function returns the directory entries. On GNU/Linux,
the order is arbitrary (AFAIK, it's the order of the entries in the
directory file). On MS-Windows, the order is alphabetic, so reversing
will produce the reverse alphabetic order. I don't know what happens
on OS X.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-06 14:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-17 17:25 bug#21284: 25.0.50; `completion-file-name-table' should/not use `nreverse'? Keith David Bershatsky
2016-05-04 7:40 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-05-04 18:14 ` Keith David Bershatsky
2022-02-13 8:52 ` bug#21284: eshell does not sort completion candidates Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-03-14 10:33 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-06-06 2:50 ` bug#21284: 25.0.50; `completion-file-name-table' should/not use `nreverse'? Noam Postavsky
2016-06-06 14:43 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-06-06 23:12 ` Noam Postavsky
2016-06-06 16:19 ` Keith David Bershatsky
2016-06-06 18:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-06-08 2:43 ` Noam Postavsky
2016-06-06 20:00 ` Keith David Bershatsky
2016-06-07 2:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
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