From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: master 71783e9: Add the string-numeric-lessp function Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2016 10:26:43 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20160221043348.25201.81719@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> <87twl2fzaw.fsf@gnus.org> <56CA2C66.7040306@cs.ucla.edu> <87povpzc9c.fsf@gnus.org> <56CA8578.2030004@cs.ucla.edu> <87twl1xul1.fsf@gnus.org> <56CA8BB8.6040908@cs.ucla.edu> <8737s3jfrr.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <56DCD115.30707@cs.ucla.edu> <87r3fllusk.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <56DE33A2.20402@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1457429238 16495 80.91.229.3 (8 Mar 2016 09:27:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 09:27:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen , emacs-devel@gnu.org, Juri Linkov To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 08 10:27:09 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 1adDv3-0004cC-IB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 10:27:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33285 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adDv2-0007Kw-TJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 04:27:08 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54448) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adDul-0007HN-Jc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 04:26:52 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adDug-0006mM-G3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 04:26:51 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:52688) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adDug-0006mH-9e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 04:26:46 -0500 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at test-mx.suse.de Original-Received: from relay1.suse.de (charybdis-ext.suse.de [195.135.220.254]) by mx2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72752AC16; Tue, 8 Mar 2016 09:26:43 +0000 (UTC) X-Yow: I put aside my copy of ``BOWLING WORLD'' and think about GUN CONTROL legislation.. In-Reply-To: <56DE33A2.20402@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Mon, 7 Mar 2016 18:06:26 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x (no timestamps) [generic] X-Received-From: 195.135.220.15 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:201136 Archived-At: Paul Eggert writes: > Juri Linkov wrote: >> Still this is the weirdest sorting order that I've ever seen >> where single backups come before, but numbered backups after: >> >> -rw-r--r-- 1 158,018 Mar 8 01:04 dired.el~ >> -rw-r--r-- 1 158,018 Mar 8 01:05 dired.el >> -rw-r--r-- 1 158,018 Mar 8 01:01 dired.el.~1~ >> -rw-r--r-- 1 158,018 Mar 8 01:02 dired.el.~2~ >> -rw-r--r-- 1 158,018 Mar 8 01:03 dired.el.~3~ > > I like it, as it clearly separates the two backup styles in the hopefully > rare case where people have edited the same file with different backup > styles. (I don't use numbered backups so I don't run into the latter sort > of names much.) How does that fit with your previous statement? > That's a good thing, as it's natural for the older version to come before > the newer one. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SUSE Labs, schwab@suse.de GPG Key fingerprint = 0196 BAD8 1CE9 1970 F4BE 1748 E4D4 88E3 0EEA B9D7 "And now for something completely different."