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Re: Human-readable file sorting
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Human-readable file sorting |
Date: |
Tue, 23 Feb 2016 20:00:58 +0200 |
> From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden, address@hidden
> Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 12:43:22 -0500
>
> > > I don't think we should do that. I think rather that we should
> > > have separate variables to select a sort method for other things.
>
> > Why do we need a variable? The relevant functions accept an argument
> > that is the comparison function, so the callers could simply pass the
> > function they wanted.
>
> I think we are talking about two different questions.
> You seem to be talking about low-level primitives. I am talking
> about how users customize the behavior of commands.
Fair enough, but which commands were you talking about, specifically?
(Lars did talk about invoking functions from Lisp programs, which is
why I talked about that as well. But I don't recall commands for
sorting files where this issue would be applicable; the only one that
comes to mind -- Dired -- delegates sorting to 'ls'.)
- Re: Human-readable file sorting, (continued)
- Re: Human-readable file sorting, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/20
- Re: Human-readable file sorting, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2016/02/20
- Re: Human-readable file sorting, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/20
- Re: Human-readable file sorting, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2016/02/20
- Re: Human-readable file sorting, Richard Stallman, 2016/02/21
- Re: Human-readable file sorting, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2016/02/21
- Re: Human-readable file sorting, Richard Stallman, 2016/02/22
- Re: Human-readable file sorting, Pierpaolo Bernardi, 2016/02/22
- Re: Human-readable file sorting, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/22
- Re: Human-readable file sorting, Richard Stallman, 2016/02/23
- Re: Human-readable file sorting,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Human-readable file sorting, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2016/02/23
- Re: Human-readable file sorting, Richard Stallman, 2016/02/24
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- Re: Human-readable file sorting, Alexis, 2016/02/20
- Re: Human-readable file sorting, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/20
- Re: Human-readable file sorting, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2016/02/20
- Re: Human-readable file sorting, Alexis, 2016/02/21
- Re: Human-readable file sorting, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2016/02/21
- Re: Human-readable file sorting, Yuri Khan, 2016/02/21
- Re: Human-readable file sorting, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/21