Re: customize objects are in no useful order

[Juri Linkov]

> Someone made a different suggestion involving sorting just the groups;
> perhaps that is the right way to go.

Sorting the groups is not a good thing either.  Many top-level groups
are defined in cus-edit.el in useful order.  Other groups defined in
other packages are added to the end of the existing groups.  This is
good since additional groups are less important than basic groups.

> If we don't want alphabetical sorting, perhaps what we need to do is
> rearrange some groups carefully by hand (those important enough to
> care?) the way you have just now rearranged one of them.

There was only one complaint so far about order of options in the
group `basic-faces'.  I fixed them to be in useful order.

I also looked at a few other groups in non-alphabetical order
(i.e. programmer-defined order), and don't see any other group were
order of items is so obviously broken as in `basic-faces'.

I think everyone who will find illogical order in some group,
can send a proposal for better reordering.

In any case, alphabetical is bad sorting order.  It doesn't help for
users to find a required option faster, and it breaks logical order
defined by programmers.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/