Re: Inconsistent org-sort numeric

[Ihor Radchenko]

Kepa <gnu.cognition199@slmails.com> writes:

> It seems inconsistent, org-sort numeric.
> If org-sort numeric is applied to each of these one level headlines, the 
> order is different in both (tested with emacs -q):
>
>
> * Inconsistent org-sort. M-x org-sort numeric
> ** !Cuatro
> ** ~Cinco
> ** Tres
> ...
>
> ** Tres
> ** !Cuatro
> ** ~Cinco

Your example is ambiguous.
How exactly do you expect _numeric_ sort to order non-numbers?

As an implementation detail, org-sort treats all the non-numbers as
0-es. It also does not re-order items with the same sorting key.

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