bug#714: marked as done (directory-files: Doc string is irritatingly vague wrt sorting.)

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sorting.
has caused the Emacs bug report #714,
regarding directory-files:  Doc string is irritatingly vague wrt sorting.
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> Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:11:41 +0000
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> Hi, Emacs!
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> The doc string for directory files is:
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>     directory-files is a built-in function in `src/dired.c'.
>     (directory-files DIRECTORY &optional FULL MATCH NOSORT)
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>     Return a list of names of files in DIRECTORY.
>     There are three optional arguments:
>     If FULL is non-nil, return absolute file names.  Otherwise return names
>     that are relative to the specified directory.
>     If MATCH is non-nil, mention only file names that match the regexp MATCH.
>     If NOSORT is non-nil, the list is not sorted--its order is unpredictable.
>      NOSORT is useful if you plan to sort the result yourself.
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> This sort of implies (but doesn't state) that if NOSORT is nil, the
> returned list is sorted.
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> More importantly, it doesn't state the predicate used for the sorting.
> "Obviously", this will be some sort of alphabetical sort, but this gets
> complicated for mixed case filenames and (more importantly) for character
> sets which aren't vanilla ASCII.
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> Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
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> Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:19:06 -0400
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> I've clarified the docstring.  Thanks.
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