From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#35796: 26.1; tabulated-list-sort user-friendliness Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2019 04:35:43 +0200 Message-ID: <87wogsdjeo.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> References: <20190519050934.lt6dsr6oxk4qp5kr@E15-2016.optimum.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="121656"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: 35796@debbugs.gnu.org To: Boruch Baum Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 09 04:37:00 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hkg03-000VVN-Ln for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Jul 2019 04:36:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46224 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hkg02-00056S-Ob for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Jul 2019 22:36:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:45308) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hkfzC-0004LX-R5 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Jul 2019 22:36:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hkfzB-0003xO-NK for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Jul 2019 22:36:06 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:51325) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hkfz7-0003tf-TD for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Jul 2019 22:36:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hkfz7-0002W2-PY for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Jul 2019 22:36:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2019 02:36:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 35796 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 35796-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B35796.15626397509597 (code B ref 35796); Tue, 09 Jul 2019 02:36:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 35796) by debbugs.gnu.org; 9 Jul 2019 02:35:50 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60143 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hkfyw-0002Ug-BF for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 08 Jul 2019 22:35:50 -0400 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]:38476) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hkfyu-0002UK-FP for 35796@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 08 Jul 2019 22:35:49 -0400 Original-Received: from cm-84.212.202.86.getinternet.no ([84.212.202.86] helo=marnie) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hkfyp-0008D5-J3; Tue, 09 Jul 2019 04:35:45 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20190519050934.lt6dsr6oxk4qp5kr@E15-2016.optimum.net> (Boruch Baum's message of "Sun, 19 May 2019 01:09:34 -0400") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:162428 Archived-At: Boruch Baum writes: > This is a feature request for function `tabulated-list-sort' to make it > more user-friendly. > > When the function is called interactively without a prefix-argument, it > should prompt the user (using `completing-read'?) for which column to > sort by (taken from the car of each element of `tabulated-list-format'). > When called with a prefix argument, that would be redundant since the > prefix argument *is* the sort column. It sorts based on the current column (I just tried it in a C-x C-b buffer), and it seems to work fine for me. > The mode should also have a means to directly and explicitly ask for the > direction of sort. Here are a few implementation ideas for that, but any > better one that you can come up would be fine by me: It reverses the direction when you hit it twice, which seems logical to me. So I think this works as it should. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no