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 15:22:59 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vb5hwezg.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56CA8BB8.6040908@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Sun, 21 Feb 2016 20:16:56 -0800")
Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> writes:
> Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
>
>> I don't think that's something our numerical string comparison function
>> should be doing.
>
> Again, I'm not sure I'm following. The two strings "2.21-0ubuntu4" and
> "2.21-0ubuntu4.1" are identical except the latter has ".1"
> appended. Shouldn't almost any sane kind of string comparison consider
> the shorter to be less than the longer?
Oh, I thought you meant that it considered "4.1" to be one unit in the
string, and compared as such. Sorry for misunderstanding.
> The GNU ls -v approach works well in practice, because people who care
> about version numbers tend to name their files consistently. E.g.,
> they do not put files "foo001.png" "foo1.png" in the same directory,
> because that kind of usage would confuse humans no matter what 'ls -v'
> does.
Yeah, but this isn't about people who care about version numbers. Its
about real world usage where people just dump a lot of files in a
directory, and expect to be able to find them afterwards.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-22 4:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20160221043348.25201.81719@vcs.savannah.gnu.org>
[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 [this message]
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
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=87vb5hwezg.fsf@gnus.org \
--to=larsi@gnus.org \
--cc=eggert@cs.ucla.edu \
--cc=emacs-devel@gnu.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.