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Re: Human-readable file sorting
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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Re: Human-readable file sorting |
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Sat, 20 Feb 2016 18:15:02 +1100 |
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Marcin Borkowski <address@hidden> writes:
> Wouldn't it be cleaner (and more flexible) to introduce a variable
> `file-string-lessp-function'? Then the user could also account for
> 1,000.23 and similar cases by themselves when needed. One could then
> even put a special value in .dir-locals.el for e.g. music files (which
> sometimes follow strange naming conventions).
We could allow `file-sorting-method' to be a function in addition to the
special symbols. I kinda like having predefined symbols for
user-oriented variables, though. Less chance of users getting
confused. :-)
> BTW, I like this idea. FWIW, exactly because of this issue I use
> trailing zeros when naming files, and do not expect file sorting to be
> too smart, but many people don't do this, and renaming files I get from
> them is a pain.
I had a collection of stuff that I had padded with four zeros, and then
I needed another digit. *sigh*
Computers are really good at doing stuff like sorting, so we should let
them do that, so that humans don't have to do so much work. :-)
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- Re: Human-readable file sorting, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2016/02/19
- Re: Human-readable file sorting, John Wiegley, 2016/02/19
- Re: Human-readable file sorting, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2016/02/20
- Re: Human-readable file sorting, Marcin Borkowski, 2016/02/20
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- Re: Human-readable file sorting, Marcin Borkowski, 2016/02/20
- Re: Human-readable file sorting, Nikolaus Rath, 2016/02/22
- Re: Human-readable file sorting, Marcin Borkowski, 2016/02/22
- Re: Human-readable file sorting, Yuri Khan, 2016/02/23
- Re: Human-readable file sorting, Andreas Schwab, 2016/02/23
- Re: Human-readable file sorting, Marcin Borkowski, 2016/02/24
- Re: Human-readable file sorting, John Wiegley, 2016/02/20
- Re: Human-readable file sorting, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2016/02/20
- Re: Human-readable file sorting, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/20
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