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: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 12:43:22 -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> <83wppwk1tv.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 1456249447 7730 80.91.229.3 (23 Feb 2016 17:44:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 17:44:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 23 18:43:59 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 1aYH07-0008F9-8A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Feb 2016 18:43:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58829 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aYH06-0004zN-NX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Feb 2016 12:43:54 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41883) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aYGzm-0004wV-B2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Feb 2016 12:43:37 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aYGzj-0000J6-LO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Feb 2016 12:43:34 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:45476) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aYGzb-0000AY-QK; Tue, 23 Feb 2016 12:43:23 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aYGza-00063a-18; Tue, 23 Feb 2016 12:43:22 -0500 In-reply-to: <83wppwk1tv.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Mon, 22 Feb 2016 21:00:12 +0200) 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:200550 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. ]]] > > 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. > Why do we need a variable? The relevant functions accept an argument > that is the comparison function, so the callers could simply pass the > function they wanted. I think we are talking about two different questions. You seem to be talking about low-level primitives. I am talking about how users customize the behavior of commands. -- 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.