Re: Human-readable file sorting

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden, address@hidden
> Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 13:01:25 -0500
> 
>   > > Then we want some user interface to make it easy to choose one of
>   > > those two functions as the value of 'file-name-comparison-function'.
> 
>   > Yes, I agree.  But Eli pointed out (I think :-)) that this setting may
>   > actually be something that will (or should) affect more than file name
>   > sorting.
> 
> 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.