Re: ordering *Completions* by time could make life easier sometimes

[Kevin Rodgers]

Dan Jacobson wrote:
> 
> OK, were editing a file and we want to insert this other file we just
> made but forgot the name of, but not to worry, it's in the current
> directory:
> 
> C-x i tab tab tab tab tab tab tab
> 
> there we go, plowing thru lots of names [were in $HOME, and first we
> see the dot files, etc. etc. snore] in the scrolling *Completions*
> buffer.
> 
> However, if they were time ordered, not alphabetically, I would know
> the answer at first glance.  Yes, not every time we want date over
> alphabetically, but at least there should be some toggle key...

I think this would be pretty easy to implement in Emacs Lisp by advising
file-name-all-completions, were it not for the fact that fileio.c:
Fread_file_name_internal() calls it via its C binding

    return Ffile_name_all_completions (name, realdir);

instead of via its Lisp binding

    {
      Lisp_Object args[3];

      args[0] = intern ("file-name-all-completions");
      args[1] = name;
      args[2] = realdir;
      return Ffuncall (3, args);
    }

-- 
Kevin Rodgers <kevinr@ihs.com>