From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master 71783e9: Add the string-numeric-lessp function
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 18:06:26 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56DE33A2.20402@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r3fllusk.fsf@mail.linkov.net>
Juri Linkov wrote:
> Still this is the weirdest sorting order that I've ever seen
> where single backups come before, but numbered backups after:
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 158,018 Mar 8 01:04 dired.el~
> -rw-r--r-- 1 158,018 Mar 8 01:05 dired.el
> -rw-r--r-- 1 158,018 Mar 8 01:01 dired.el.~1~
> -rw-r--r-- 1 158,018 Mar 8 01:02 dired.el.~2~
> -rw-r--r-- 1 158,018 Mar 8 01:03 dired.el.~3~
I like it, as it clearly separates the two backup styles in the hopefully rare
case where people have edited the same file with different backup styles. (I
don't use numbered backups so I don't run into the latter sort of names much.)
As it happens, someone complained about this GNU ls behavior many years ago:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-02/msg00250.html
with a response essentially the same as mine (great minds think alike ...):
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-02/msg00254.html
Presumably the behavior could be changed in GNU 'ls', though this sounds low
priority. Anyway, I'd rather have Emacs and 'ls' behave the same by default,
when sorting by version; that seems like a no-brainer.
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[not found] ` <E1aXLiO-0006ZB-4R@vcs.savannah.gnu.org>
2016-02-21 4:43 ` master 71783e9: Add the string-numeric-lessp function Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-21 5:36 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-21 6:15 ` Stephan Mueller
2016-02-21 10:02 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-21 19:35 ` Yuri Khan
2016-02-22 2:51 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-22 17:59 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-21 21:30 ` Paul Eggert
2016-02-22 1:32 ` Andy Moreton
2016-02-22 4:01 ` Paul Eggert
2016-02-22 16:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-22 2:53 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-22 3:50 ` Paul Eggert
2016-02-22 4:00 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-22 4:16 ` Paul Eggert
2016-02-22 4:22 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-22 5:56 ` Paul Eggert
2016-03-07 0:16 ` Juri Linkov
2016-03-07 0:53 ` Paul Eggert
2016-03-07 17:45 ` Richard Stallman
2016-03-07 17:49 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2016-03-07 23:55 ` Juri Linkov
2016-03-07 23:52 ` Juri Linkov
2016-03-08 2:06 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2016-03-08 9:26 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-03-09 9:26 ` Paul Eggert
2016-03-07 2:27 ` Drew Adams
2016-03-07 21:14 ` Johan Bockgård
2016-03-07 22:03 ` Drew Adams
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