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: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 13:01:25 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87povs41xg.fsf@gnus.org> <87bn7c3yms.fsf@gnus.org> <83si0npxtn.fsf@gnu.org> <87si0nlirx.fsf@gnus.org> <8360xjpq91.fsf@gnu.org> <87oabbli5g.fsf@gnus.org> <831t87pnjo.fsf@gnu.org> <87d1rqkdx1.fsf@gnus.org> <87lh6dzc16.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 1456164146 28651 80.91.229.3 (22 Feb 2016 18:02:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 18:02:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 22 19:02:22 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 1aXuoP-00052y-OM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Feb 2016 19:02:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50986 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aXuoO-0001Jm-Qt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Feb 2016 13:02:20 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44004) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aXunw-0000zk-4O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Feb 2016 13:02:19 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aXunh-0000Qq-ST for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Feb 2016 13:01:52 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:41600) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aXunW-0008WR-EH; Mon, 22 Feb 2016 13:01:26 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aXunV-0003Mf-4U; Mon, 22 Feb 2016 13:01:25 -0500 In-reply-to: <87lh6dzc16.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Mon, 22 Feb 2016 13:58:29 +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:200476 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. ]]] > > Then we want some user interface to make it easy to choose one of > > those two functions as the value of 'file-name-comparison-function'. > Yes, I agree. But Eli pointed out (I think :-)) that this setting may > actually be something that will (or should) affect more than file name > sorting. I don't think we should do that. I think rather that we should have separate variables to select a sort method for other things. I doubt that users will want this "natural" sort method for anything other than file names. But if they ask for that, we can easily give them variables to set to get it. -- 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.