From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Sorting buffer with string-collate-lessp Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 02:25:31 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87iobeuaro.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <871ti3uz81.fsf@debian.uxu> <87r3q3e43r.fsf@gmx.us> <87wpzvtjbc.fsf@debian.uxu> <87r3q3t0vw.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1432686019 3681 80.91.229.3 (27 May 2015 00:20:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 00:20:19 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 27 02:20:18 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1YxP50-0004oh-10 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 May 2015 02:20:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50758 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YxP4z-0003I1-4x for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 May 2015 20:20:17 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 31 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: feB02bRejf23rfBm51Mt7Q.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:5X1zrlyQdHCGCVorEnYJW6EghZA= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:212313 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:104597 Archived-At: Rasmus writes: >> "Locale aware" stuff is always trouble which is why >> I don't care for it but eat, sleep and dream an >> assimilated Anglo-American when it comes to >> computing, and with no shame or blame attached > > Maybe you'd care if your name was Émanuel given the > fact that (string< "É" "å") is non-nil. It is only impractical to bother with all that. You can call me Manny if that feels better. > Diacritics are used in English as well. Not in Computer English. >> But I don't see anything reoccurring so if it works >> why not just put it in some init file and move on? > > It's for package. It seems bewildering that it's so > "hard" to sort a buffer in this way. OK, put it in a package then. That's beside the point. I don't understand the problem. Did you solve it but your are unhappy with the solution? Why? What's wrong with it? -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573