GNU bug report logs - #38614
26.3; Info completions in reverse order

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Howard Melman <hmelman <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2019 21:17:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 26.3

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #31 received at 38614 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Howard Melman <hmelman <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 38614 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#38614: 26.3; Info completions in reverse order
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2020 17:04:39 -0700

Howard Melman <hmelman <at> gmail.com> writes:

> I have one small comment on your patch.  The comment "Sort list
> alphabetically." is not correct.  The result of adding the call to
> nreverse means the list will be in the order the items were found in
> the info node.  In the case of an index node that will be
> alphabetically, in the case of other nodes, it is unlikely to be.

Hmm, indeed.  I do want some kind of explanation for why we want to do
an nreverse there.  Would this be more accurate?

;; Arrange list to be in order found in node.

> Is it the case that this won't show up until Emacs 28.1?

Yes.
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