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From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
To: Kepa <gnu.cognition199@slmails.com>
Cc: "emacs-orgmode@gnu.org" <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Inconsistent org-sort numeric
Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2024 18:17:05 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874j6opu8u.fsf@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <172566430047.7.10798428441467751145.427033811@slmails.com>

Kepa <gnu.cognition199@slmails.com> writes:

> It seems inconsistent, org-sort numeric.
> If org-sort numeric is applied to each of these one level headlines, the order is different in both (tested with emacs -q):
>
>
> * Inconsistent org-sort. M-x org-sort numeric
> ** !Cuatro
> ** ~Cinco
> ** Tres
> ...
>
> ** Tres
> ** !Cuatro
> ** ~Cinco

Your example is ambiguous.
How exactly do you expect _numeric_ sort to order non-numbers?

As an implementation detail, org-sort treats all the non-numbers as
0-es. It also does not re-order items with the same sorting key.

-- 
Ihor Radchenko // yantar92,
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  reply	other threads:[~2024-09-09 18:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-09-06 23:11 Inconsistent org-sort numeric Kepa
2024-09-09 18:17 ` Ihor Radchenko [this message]
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2024-09-11  6:28 Kepa

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