From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master 71783e9: Add the string-numeric-lessp function
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 13:53:35 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87povpzc9c.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56CA2C66.7040306@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Sun, 21 Feb 2016 13:30:14 -0800")
Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> writes:
> Thanks, I did that. The idea of my followup is to use the same
> algorithm that GNU ls -v does, rather than invent yet another file
> name comparison algorithm. This should also handle very long integers
> correctly. I also changed the name to be more like the names used
> elsewhere. Please feel free to revert.
Looks nice, but I don't think that's a very good function name. It
sounds like something that is only meant to be used for version strings,
instead of something that happens to work on version strings as well..
And is this supposed to be this way?
(string-version-lessp "foo001.png" "foo1.png")
=> t
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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 [this message]
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
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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