Re: master 4b79c80c999 1/2: New function 'sort-on'

[Daniel Mendler]

Michael Heerdegen via "Emacs development discussions."
<emacs-devel@gnu.org> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> This function can only sort lists, so at least from that aspect its
>> place is not in seq.el.  In addition, I see no reason to have it
>> preloaded.
>>
>> I've put it in sort.el because the function 'sort' is there.
>
> Both places make no sense to me.  sort.el doesn't define `sort' - it's
> completely and only about sorting _text_ entities.  Reverse lines or
> columns etc.  The new function doesn't fit there.  Maybe subr.el or
> subr-x.el?

Why not seq.el? We already seq-sort in seq.el, so the new function could
be added there as well.

Daniel