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bug#33237: 26.1, 7.3 emacs-mac: <fnum> list order in C-h b
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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bug#33237: 26.1, 7.3 emacs-mac: <fnum> list order in C-h b |
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Thu, 11 Jul 2019 16:50:22 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> It sounds very strange to use string-version-lessp here, so I think
> this must have a comment explaining why.
Yup. I mean, it's a function with a strange name, but what it does is
nice (i.e., sort stretches of digits as a number). In other
environments the function is often called something like "natural sort".
> Btw, did you try string-collate-lessp instead?
Yes, I tried it first, and it didn't do what I thought it would do:
(sort '("1" "2" "11") 'string-collate-lessp)
=> ("1" "11" "2")
Which isn't what we want...
I'll go ahead and apply the patch (with a comment) and we can see how we
like the result.
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