From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Human-readable file sorting Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 21:38:15 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87povs41xg.fsf@gnus.org> <87bn7c3yms.fsf@gnus.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1456022340 22558 80.91.229.3 (21 Feb 2016 02:39:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2016 02:39:00 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 21 03:38:52 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 1aXJvA-0000dy-3K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Feb 2016 03:38:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37322 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aXJv9-0000PA-LC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 21:38:51 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50832) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aXJux-0000MR-50 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 21:38:39 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aXJut-000372-V2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 21:38:39 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:41970) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aXJut-00036y-O2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 21:38:35 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aXJuq-0000OM-ET for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Feb 2016 03:38:32 +0100 Original-Received: from 76-10-161-227.dsl.teksavvy.com ([76.10.161.227]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 21 Feb 2016 03:38:32 +0100 Original-Received: from monnier by 76-10-161-227.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 21 Feb 2016 03:38:32 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 10 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76-10-161-227.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:w/cNHPTRzgq2z428OiOTsgEZvGE= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:200355 Archived-At: > The practical way to implement this is to provide a `file-string-lessp' > function that can be configured to sort the way the user prefers, > defaulting to human readable sorting, and then we adjust > `directory-files' and other file-ey commands to call that instead of > `string-lessp'. FWIW, mpc.el does use "human sorting" (see mpc-compare-strings). Stefan