GNU bug report logs - #714
directory-files: Doc string is irritatingly vague wrt sorting.

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>

Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:15:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 714 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
Cc: 714 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#714: directory-files: Doc string is irritatingly vague wrt sorting.
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:14:51 -0400

Alan Mackenzie wrote:

> More importantly, it doesn't state the predicate used for the sorting.
> "Obviously", this will be some sort of alphabetical sort, but this gets
> complicated for mixed case filenames and (more importantly) for character
> sets which aren't vanilla ASCII.

Will saying it uses `string-lessp' be good enough for you? The details
of said function are in the Elisp manual.
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