From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Pierpaolo Bernardi <olopierpa@gmail.com>
Cc: eliz@gnu.org, larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Human-readable file sorting
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2016 07:45:32 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1aXTOG-0005QC-RA@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANY8u7FytyuRqPAGYWE4GT2sQo50QxSrGw-0HMkkkzNcVaTK2Q@mail.gmail.com> (message from Pierpaolo Bernardi on Sat, 20 Feb 2016 16:35:42 +0100)
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> The established name is "natural sort". There's no reason to invent a new one?
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_sort_order
We could call it 'string-natural-lessp'.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-21 12:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-20 1:15 Human-readable file sorting Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-20 1:58 ` John Wiegley
2016-02-20 2:26 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-20 2:33 ` John Wiegley
2016-02-20 6:00 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-20 6:12 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-02-20 7:15 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-20 8:14 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-02-22 18:09 ` Nikolaus Rath
2016-02-22 21:31 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-02-23 6:13 ` Yuri Khan
2016-02-23 8:32 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-02-24 5:39 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-02-20 6:17 ` John Wiegley
2016-02-20 7:11 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-20 9:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-20 10:24 ` martin rudalics
2016-02-20 10:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-20 17:30 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-02-20 18:25 ` Drew Adams
2016-02-20 6:16 ` dired and ls (was: Human-readable file sorting) Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-20 6:19 ` dired and ls John Wiegley
2016-02-20 7:25 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-20 8:01 ` John Wiegley
2016-02-23 7:15 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2016-02-23 16:34 ` John Wiegley
2016-02-20 9:57 ` dired and ls (was: Human-readable file sorting) Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-20 19:21 ` dired and ls John Wiegley
2016-02-20 21:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-20 21:24 ` John Wiegley
2016-02-21 2:10 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-20 8:53 ` Human-readable file sorting Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-20 11:32 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-20 11:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-20 11:45 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-20 12:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-21 2:14 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-21 23:36 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-22 2:58 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-22 18:01 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-22 18:13 ` Pierpaolo Bernardi
2016-02-22 19:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-23 17:43 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-23 18:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-24 1:51 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-24 13:43 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-24 13:41 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-20 14:23 ` Alexis
2016-02-20 14:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-21 2:18 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-21 9:30 ` Alexis
2016-02-21 10:07 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-21 19:27 ` Yuri Khan
2016-02-21 20:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-20 15:35 ` Pierpaolo Bernardi
2016-02-20 15:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-21 12:45 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-20 16:03 ` Herring, Davis
2016-02-20 16:23 ` Paul Eggert
2016-02-21 2:20 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-21 12:45 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2016-02-21 2:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-02-20 14:32 ` Richard Stallman
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