From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: master 71783e9: Add the string-numeric-lessp function Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2016 21:56:24 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <56CAA308.8050309@cs.ucla.edu> References: <20160221043348.25201.81719@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> <87twl2fzaw.fsf@gnus.org> <56CA2C66.7040306@cs.ucla.edu> <87povpzc9c.fsf@gnus.org> <56CA8578.2030004@cs.ucla.edu> <87twl1xul1.fsf@gnus.org> <56CA8BB8.6040908@cs.ucla.edu> <87vb5hwezg.fsf@gnus.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1456120620 23815 80.91.229.3 (22 Feb 2016 05:57:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 05:57:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 22 06:56:47 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 1aXjUC-00046Z-Lx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Feb 2016 06:56:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47192 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aXjUB-0003AJ-Uc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Feb 2016 00:56:43 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42881) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aXjTy-00039z-Jn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Feb 2016 00:56:31 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aXjTv-0007JD-DK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Feb 2016 00:56:30 -0500 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:34748) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aXjTv-0007J9-6H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Feb 2016 00:56:27 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31C44160FC1; Sun, 21 Feb 2016 21:56:26 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id cP0FZ3Lvxema; Sun, 21 Feb 2016 21:56:25 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 731C1160FEF; Sun, 21 Feb 2016 21:56:25 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id igQtD4ZjWGto; Sun, 21 Feb 2016 21:56:25 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (pool-100-32-155-148.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [100.32.155.148]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 30D69160FC1; Sun, 21 Feb 2016 21:56:25 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.1 In-Reply-To: <87vb5hwezg.fsf@gnus.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 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:200439 Archived-At: Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote: > this isn't about people who care about version numbers. Its > about real world usage where people just dump a lot of files in a > directory, and expect to be able to find them afterwards. What can I say? In practice, ls -v seems to work well enough. Perhaps people who just dump a lot of files in a directory tend to not care whether foo001.png comes before foo1.png so long as they're put close to each other, which they are.