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From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: 714@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#714: directory-files: Doc string is irritatingly vague wrt sorting.
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:14:51 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <lwfxp6gkes.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080813191141.GA2825@muc.de> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Wed,  13 Aug 2008 19:11:41 +0000")

Alan Mackenzie wrote:

> More importantly, it doesn't state the predicate used for the sorting.
> "Obviously", this will be some sort of alphabetical sort, but this gets
> complicated for mixed case filenames and (more importantly) for character
> sets which aren't vanilla ASCII.

Will saying it uses `string-lessp' be good enough for you? The details
of said function are in the Elisp manual.






  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-15 19:14 UTC|newest]

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2008-08-13 19:11 ` bug#714: directory-files: Doc string is irritatingly vague wrt sorting Alan Mackenzie
2008-08-15 19:14   ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2008-08-15 20:25   ` bug#714: marked as done (directory-files: Doc string is irritatingly vague wrt sorting.) Emacs bug Tracking System

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