Re: Human-readable file sorting

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 13:26:51 +1100
> 
> 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'.

Please don't call that function `file-string-lessp', or anything that
has "file" in it.  This sorting order has nothing to do with files.
Names I can suggest include "logical", "intuitive", and "numerical".

Btw, ls-lisp by default doesn't use string-lessp, it uses
string-collate-lessp.