From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Keith David Bershatsky Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#21284: 25.0.50; `completion-file-name-table' should/not use `nreverse'? Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2016 09:19:07 -0700 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by - "") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1465232678 11242 80.91.229.3 (6 Jun 2016 17:04:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2016 17:04:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 21284@debbugs.gnu.org, Marcin Borkowski , Noam Postavsky To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 06 19:04:26 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 1b9xwu-0008Px-QP for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Jun 2016 19:04:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43950 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b9xwu-0003e4-32 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Jun 2016 13:04:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41741) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b9xG3-0006bc-OD for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jun 2016 12:20:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b9xFy-0007AO-Em for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jun 2016 12:20:06 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:44603) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b9xFy-0007AK-Ap for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jun 2016 12:20:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1b9xFy-0001qC-75 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jun 2016 12:20:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org In-Reply-To: Resent-From: Keith David Bershatsky Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2016 16:20:02 +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=B21284.14652299607023 (code B ref 21284); Mon, 06 Jun 2016 16:20:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 21284) by debbugs.gnu.org; 6 Jun 2016 16:19:20 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56940 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1b9xFI-0001pD-CE for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jun 2016 12:19:20 -0400 Original-Received: from black.birch.relay.mailchannels.net ([23.83.209.19]:43811 helo=gt-egress-001.mailchannels.net) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1b9xFG-0001p3-60 for 21284@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jun 2016 12:19:18 -0400 X-Sender-Id: _forwarded-from|45.48.239.195 Original-Received: from relay.mailchannels.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by relay.mailchannels.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1437100416; Mon, 6 Jun 2016 16:19:12 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from cobb.liquidweb.com (ip-10-213-0-221.us-west-2.compute.internal [10.213.0.221]) by relay.mailchannels.net (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 68ADB100232; Mon, 6 Jun 2016 16:19:11 +0000 (UTC) X-Sender-Id: _forwarded-from|45.48.239.195 Original-Received: from cobb.liquidweb.com (cobb.liquidweb.com [10.29.31.47]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA) by 0.0.0.0:2500 (trex/5.6.14); Mon, 06 Jun 2016 16:19:12 +0000 X-MC-Relay: Forwarding X-MailChannels-SenderId: _forwarded-from|45.48.239.195 X-MailChannels-Auth-Id: liquidweb X-MC-Loop-Signature: 1465229952063:290580071 X-MC-Ingress-Time: 1465229952063 Original-Received: from cpe-45-48-239-195.socal.res.rr.com ([45.48.239.195]:49641 helo=server.local.localhost) by cobb.liquidweb.com with esmtp (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1b9xF7-00082c-Mg; Mon, 06 Jun 2016 12:19:09 -0400 X-AuthUser: 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:119164 Archived-At: I am on OS X and the default sort order is alphabetic, which gets reversed by `completion-file-name-table` because it uses `nreverse'. Keith At Mon, 06 Jun 2016 17:43:04 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > . . . > > 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.