From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Order of eshell/pcomplete completions when cycling
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2015 19:10:51 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83y4m1e0z8.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871tjt49bj.fsf@gnu.org>
> From: Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>
> Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2015 17:20:48 +0200
>
> assuming I have the directories test, test1, test2, and test11, when I
> do `cd tes<TAB>' in eshell, it'll cycle the possible completions in the
> order test2/, test1/, test/, test11/.
>
> In a typical shell like ZSH or BASH, the order would be test/, test1/,
> test11/, test2/, i.e., the completions come in lexicographic order.
>
> Now I've found `pcomplete-compare-entry-function' which is
> `string-lessp' by default and suggests alphabetic sorting. That
> variable is set buffer-locally to `file-newer-than-file-p' in eshell
> buffers, so it seems there sorting according to creation (or
> modification?) time is intended which is a very weird default value,
> IMHO.
I think you want string-collate-lessp, not string-lessp. AFAIK,
that's what the shells use.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-09 16:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-09 15:20 Order of eshell/pcomplete completions when cycling Tassilo Horn
2015-04-09 16:10 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2015-04-10 11:08 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-04-10 11:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-10 12:19 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-04-10 12:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-04-10 13:53 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-04-10 17:34 ` Stefan Monnier
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