Re: Baby X is bor nagain

On Thu, 20 Jun 2024 13:44:27 -0700, Keith Thompson
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Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> writes:
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And I see that using Python's getkey() function to swap "_D" and "_H"
would be a way to solve this. But it's far from obvious how to set up a
custom sort.

 
And you still think comp.lang.c is the place to talk about it?
 
If the links I already posted aren't sufficiently helpful (I expected
they would be), comp.lang.python exists and is reasonably active.
 

Incidentally you might like the default sort in my ls command, now in
the Baby X FileSystem shell. There's also a separate programs that runs
under the native shell - of course I developed the command on native
host filesystems first. It uses a natural sort so that "Chapter 10"
sorts after and not before "Chapter 2".

 
GNU coreutils ls has a "-v" or "--sort=version" option that does this.

I just posted a python program to comp.lang.python that uses
glibc's strverscmp(3) to sort input parameters.

There is also a separate thread in comp.unix.shell where this has
come up.

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