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RE: Human-readable file sorting


From: Herring, Davis
Subject: RE: Human-readable file sorting
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 16:03:22 +0000

> The established name is "natural sort".  There's no reason to invent a new 
> one?
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_sort_order

gnulib and ls call the idea "version sort": (coreutils)Details about version 
sort.  (The name "natural sort" seems to suggest a universality that it doesn't 
have.)

This is not quite the same as the general "treat digit sequences as integers" 
associated with the name "Natural sort order", and is also slightly different 
from Emacs' own `version<'.  I fear the confusion from all these 
almost-equivalent algorithms...

Davis


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