Re: Human-readable file sorting

[John Wiegley]

>>>>> Lars Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> writes:

> (defun file-string-lessp (s1 s2)
>   (pcase file-sorting-method
>     (,unicode
>      (string-lessp s1 s2))
>     (,human
>      (human-string-lessp s1 s2)))
>     ..)

> (Hey!  Did I get the pcase syntax right?  Bonus points!)

Exception that you picked an instance better suited to `cl-case'. :)

>> But having the extensibility does sound nice.

> If the proposed method sounds fine, I can start implementing...

It sounds reasonable to me. So for changing a single invocation of
`directory-files', would I rely on `file-sorting-method' being a dynamic
variable?

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