From: "Herring, Davis" <herring@lanl.gov>
To: Pierpaolo Bernardi <olopierpa@gmail.com>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,
Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: Human-readable file sorting
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 16:03:22 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <B393F5AD12955C48A84FFB08032CD04F6C4334FA@ECS-EXG-P-MB01.win.lanl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANY8u7FytyuRqPAGYWE4GT2sQo50QxSrGw-0HMkkkzNcVaTK2Q@mail.gmail.com>
> The established name is "natural sort". There's no reason to invent a new one?
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_sort_order
gnulib and ls call the idea "version sort": (coreutils)Details about version sort. (The name "natural sort" seems to suggest a universality that it doesn't have.)
This is not quite the same as the general "treat digit sequences as integers" associated with the name "Natural sort order", and is also slightly different from Emacs' own `version<'. I fear the confusion from all these almost-equivalent algorithms...
Davis
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-20 16:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-20 1:15 Human-readable file sorting Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-20 1:58 ` John Wiegley
2016-02-20 2:26 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-20 2:33 ` John Wiegley
2016-02-20 6:00 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-20 6:12 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-02-20 7:15 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-20 8:14 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-02-22 18:09 ` Nikolaus Rath
2016-02-22 21:31 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-02-23 6:13 ` Yuri Khan
2016-02-23 8:32 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-02-24 5:39 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-02-20 6:17 ` John Wiegley
2016-02-20 7:11 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-20 9:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-20 10:24 ` martin rudalics
2016-02-20 10:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-20 17:30 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-02-20 18:25 ` Drew Adams
2016-02-20 6:16 ` dired and ls (was: Human-readable file sorting) Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-20 6:19 ` dired and ls John Wiegley
2016-02-20 7:25 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-20 8:01 ` John Wiegley
2016-02-23 7:15 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2016-02-23 16:34 ` John Wiegley
2016-02-20 9:57 ` dired and ls (was: Human-readable file sorting) Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-20 19:21 ` dired and ls John Wiegley
2016-02-20 21:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-20 21:24 ` John Wiegley
2016-02-21 2:10 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-20 8:53 ` Human-readable file sorting Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-20 11:32 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-20 11:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-20 11:45 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-20 12:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-21 2:14 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-21 23:36 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-22 2:58 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-22 18:01 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-22 18:13 ` Pierpaolo Bernardi
2016-02-22 19:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-23 17:43 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-23 18:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-24 1:51 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-24 13:43 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-24 13:41 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-20 14:23 ` Alexis
2016-02-20 14:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-21 2:18 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-21 9:30 ` Alexis
2016-02-21 10:07 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-21 19:27 ` Yuri Khan
2016-02-21 20:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-20 15:35 ` Pierpaolo Bernardi
2016-02-20 15:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-21 12:45 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-20 16:03 ` Herring, Davis [this message]
2016-02-20 16:23 ` Paul Eggert
2016-02-21 2:20 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-21 12:45 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-21 2:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-02-20 14:32 ` Richard Stallman
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