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From: Keith David Bershatsky <esq@lawlist.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 21284@debbugs.gnu.org, Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>,
	Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: bug#21284: 25.0.50; `completion-file-name-table' should/not use `nreverse'?
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2016 13:00:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2lh2igk9j.wl%esq@lawlist.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2egj1rfnq.wl%esq@lawlist.com>

If there is/are valid reason(s) to reverse the order, then perhaps consider mentioning one or more of those reasons in a comment within `completion-file-name-table' along with a mention of bug 21284.

If there is no valid reason whatsoever to reverse the order, then perhaps consider removing `nreverse` from `completion-file-name-table`.

If the issue is "de minimus", then the bug report can be closed without further ado.

Keith

At Mon, 06 Jun 2016 21:50:05 +0300,
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> . . .
> 
> 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.





  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-06-06 20:00 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
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 [this message]
2016-06-07  2:36   ` Eli Zaretskii

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