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eshell does not sort completion candidates

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Message #25 received at 21284 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Keith David Bershatsky <esq <at> lawlist.com>
Cc: mbork <at> mbork.pl, 21284 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: bug#21284: 25.0.50;
 `completion-file-name-table' should/not use `nreverse'?
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2016 21:50:05 +0300

> Date:  Mon, 06 Jun 2016 09:19:07 -0700
> From:  Keith David Bershatsky <esq <at> lawlist.com>
> Cc:  21284 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>,Marcin Borkowski <mbork <at> mbork.pl>
> 
> I am on OS X and the default sort order is alphabetic, which gets reversed by `completion-file-name-table` because it uses `nreverse'.

Then what exactly is the problem here?  Emacs doesn't know in what
order the files are returned, it considers the order random.
Reversing a randomly ordered list produces another randomly ordered
list.  Applications that need to present the list in some specific
order need to do that explicitly.  For example, "C-x C-f TAB TAB" does
display the files in alphabetic order for me, not in reverse
alphabetic order.

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