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: Sun, 21 Feb 2016 07:45:32 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87povs41xg.fsf@gnus.org> <87bn7c3yms.fsf@gnus.org> <83si0npxtn.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1456058762 984 80.91.229.3 (21 Feb 2016 12:46:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2016 12:46:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Pierpaolo Bernardi Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 21 13:45:52 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 1aXTOZ-00053E-8n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Feb 2016 13:45:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40599 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aXTOY-0005vB-DR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Feb 2016 07:45:50 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56489) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aXTOT-0005uw-OB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Feb 2016 07:45:47 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aXTOR-0002xT-Ny for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Feb 2016 07:45:45 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:60473) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aXTOI-0002li-2d; Sun, 21 Feb 2016 07:45:34 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aXTOG-0005QC-RA; Sun, 21 Feb 2016 07:45:32 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Pierpaolo Bernardi on Sat, 20 Feb 2016 16:35:42 +0100) 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:200375 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. ]]] > The established name is "natural sort". There's no reason to invent a new one? > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_sort_order We could call it 'string-natural-lessp'. -- 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.