From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Human-readable file sorting Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 08:43:47 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87povs41xg.fsf@gnus.org> <87bn7c3yms.fsf@gnus.org> <83si0npxtn.fsf@gnu.org> <87si0nlirx.fsf@gnus.org> <8360xjpq91.fsf@gnu.org> <87oabbli5g.fsf@gnus.org> <831t87pnjo.fsf@gnu.org> <87d1rqkdx1.fsf@gnus.org> <87lh6dzc16.fsf@gnus.org> <83wppwk1tv.fsf@gnu.org> <83mvqri9wl.fsf@gnu.org> <8737siooyl.fsf@gnus.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1456321486 9147 80.91.229.3 (24 Feb 2016 13:44:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 13:44:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 24 14:44:37 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1aYZk3-0000eT-Eg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Feb 2016 14:44:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35966 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aYZk2-0004L4-IV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Feb 2016 08:44:34 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52378) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aYZjW-0004Ao-9g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Feb 2016 08:44:07 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aYZjV-0003OX-HW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Feb 2016 08:44:02 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:42995) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aYZjI-0003DF-Tr; Wed, 24 Feb 2016 08:43:48 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aYZjH-0005lM-Kc; Wed, 24 Feb 2016 08:43:47 -0500 In-reply-to: <8737siooyl.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Wed, 24 Feb 2016 12:51:30 +1100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:200617 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > I proposed making `directory-files' use this user-controlled sorting > function when sorting files. Maybe we should do that. Or we could give it a way to specify the sort function with an argument (as I think someone else suggested), and the next higher level up would be able to decide which sort function to specify. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.