From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Human-readable file sorting Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 09:32:00 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87povs41xg.fsf@gnus.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1455978751 25645 80.91.229.3 (20 Feb 2016 14:32:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 14:32:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 20 15:32:21 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1aX8a4-0004FD-CV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 15:32:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33247 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aX8a3-0003AW-UO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 09:32:19 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38391) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aX8a1-0003AO-1r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 09:32:17 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aX8a0-0001yx-Bm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 09:32:16 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:34656) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aX8Zs-0001wz-V4; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 09:32:08 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aX8Zk-0007Oi-AS; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 09:32:00 -0500 In-reply-to: <87povs41xg.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Sat, 20 Feb 2016 12:15:39 +1100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:200313 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > Most modern file browsers will sort these files the human way, and I > think that Emacs should, too. It would be a useful option, but it should be easy to switch to the low-level sorting order. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.