Re: Human-readable file sorting

[Richard Stallman]

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  > > 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?

Any command that displays a list of file names.

For instance, listing file name completions.

In principle, list-directory and dired's subroutines ought to do this.
If in fact they outsource the sorting to ls, then maybe this issue
does not really exist -- maybe there are no real Emacs functions
that need to worry about what order for sorting file names.

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