From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Human-readable file sorting Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2016 13:20:48 +1100 Message-ID: <874md2kdmn.fsf@gnus.org> References: <87povs41xg.fsf@gnus.org> <87bn7c3yms.fsf@gnus.org> <83si0npxtn.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1456021308 5513 80.91.229.3 (21 Feb 2016 02:21:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2016 02:21:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , Emacs developers To: Pierpaolo Bernardi Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 21 03:21:39 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 1aXJeR-0003MJ-0N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Feb 2016 03:21:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37219 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aXJeQ-0008AF-8m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 21:21:34 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46894) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aXJeE-00089r-3z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 21:21:22 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aXJeA-0007ey-Tk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 21:21:22 -0500 Original-Received: from hermes.netfonds.no ([80.91.224.195]:49950) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aXJeA-0007eg-NG; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 21:21:18 -0500 Original-Received: from cpe-60-225-211-161.nsw.bigpond.net.au ([60.225.211.161] helo=mouse) by hermes.netfonds.no with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1aXJdm-0004yw-Mo; Sun, 21 Feb 2016 03:20:55 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Pierpaolo Bernardi's message of "Sat, 20 Feb 2016 16:35:42 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-MailScanner-ID: 1aXJdm-0004yw-Mo MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1456626055.62111@kKUvlz4JhpS8eGBSwjAx0Q X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.224.195 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:200351 Archived-At: Pierpaolo Bernardi writes: > The established name is "natural sort". There's no reason to invent a > new one? Calling your favourite something "natural" is a great PR trick, because then you imply that everything that isn't your favourite something is "unnatural". I don't think Emacs needs to get on that bandwagon. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no