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Re: sort-lines including non ASCII


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: sort-lines including non ASCII
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2016 22:53:04 +0300

> From: Michael Heerdegen <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2016 19:32:17 +0200
> 
> BTW, a relevant question is: Is `compare-buffer-substring' faster than
> `buffer-substring'+`string<'?

Hard to say.  Measuring is the easiest way to answer that.

> I've no strong opinion about the command usage.  I would even find it
> acceptable to leave it as is and force the user to call the thing as a
> function with M-:, since a lambda as predicate might also be useful
> quite often.

My opinion is the opposite: I think it's more important to have a
command that could collate-order strings according to a user-specified
locale, than make sort-lines more flexible on the Lisp level.



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