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Re: Human-readable file sorting
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: Human-readable file sorting |
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Sun, 21 Feb 2016 18:36:00 -0500 |
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> That's true. But we were talking just about sorting file names, and
> allowing the users to control how file name should be sorted. And
> having that customisation apply to non-file functions, too, would be
> rather odd.
I think we should have a new comparison function that compares
two strings in this "natural" way. Perhaps 'string-natural-lessp'.
Then we should have a global variable that specifies which function
to use to compare file names. Its value could be 'string-lessp' or
'string-natural-lessp' or something else. Its name could be
'file-name-comparison-function'.
Then we want some user interface to make it easy to choose one of
those two functions as the value of 'file-name-comparison-function'.
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Dr Richard Stallman
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