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eshell does not sort completion candidates

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Keith David Bershatsky <esq <at> lawlist.com>
Cc: 21284 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Marcin Borkowski <mbork <at> mbork.pl>
Subject: bug#21284: eshell does not sort completion candidates
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2022 09:52:44 +0100

Keith David Bershatsky <esq <at> lawlist.com> writes:

> Step 1:  Launch the graphical version of Emacs -Q.
>
> Step 2:  M-x eshell
>
> Step 3: cd to a directory containing files and folders with a variety
> of different names beginning with letters a to z.
>
> Step 4:  type rm
>
> Step 5:  hit the space bar
>
> Step 6:  hit the tab key
>
> Step 7:  The *Completions* are in reverse alphabetical order.

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't resolved
at the time.)

I tried to reproduce this in Emacs 29, but was unable to.  Are you still
seeing this problem in recent Emacs versions?

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