Re: Human-readable file sorting

[Richard Stallman]

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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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