Re: Add a function for building sort predicates

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: Emacs Development <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2024 18:19:47 +0100
> From:  Daniel Mendler via "Emacs development discussions." 
> <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
> > Would we want to add something like this?  And to which library?  I
> > would like to prepare a patch.
> 
> That's a useful addition. Did you consider creating a macro, which will
> lead to a more efficient predicate, or is `make-sort-pred' intended to
> be used in scenarios with customizable predicate rules, such that the
> rules have to be processed at runtime?

How about adding a more user-friendly UI for customizing the sorting?
Surely, we could come up with something easier to use than having to
write a non-trivial sort comparison function?  This is all about
defining a "collation order" for a fixed and small set of status
values, right?