GNU bug report logs - #21284
eshell does not sort completion candidates

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: mbork <at> mbork.pl, esq <at> lawlist.com, 21284 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21284: 25.0.50; `completion-file-name-table' should/not use `nreverse'?
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2016 17:43:04 +0300

> From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2016 22:50:10 -0400
> Cc: Keith David Bershatsky <esq <at> lawlist.com>, Marcin Borkowski <mbork <at> mbork.pl>
> I'm getting completions in what looks like a random order, here are
> the first few lines for completions in the emacs src directory:

I suspect that there's a hidden factor here: the order in which the
'readdir' libc function returns the directory entries.  On GNU/Linux,
the order is arbitrary (AFAIK, it's the order of the entries in the
directory file).  On MS-Windows, the order is alphabetic, so reversing
will produce the reverse alphabetic order.  I don't know what happens
on OS X.

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