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Re: Human-readable file sorting


From: Pierpaolo Bernardi
Subject: Re: Human-readable file sorting
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 16:35:42 +0100

On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 9:53 AM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:

> Please don't call that function `file-string-lessp', or anything that
> has "file" in it.  This sorting order has nothing to do with files.
> Names I can suggest include "logical", "intuitive", and "numerical".

The established name is "natural sort".  There's no reason to invent a new one?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_sort_order



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