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Re: Is there a function to sort file names by file version number, like


From: Pascal J. Bourguignon
Subject: Re: Is there a function to sort file names by file version number, like "ls -v"?
Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 22:18:33 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux)

florian@fsavigny.de (Florian v. Savigny) writes:

> Hi Sean,
>
> thanks so much for being so helpful!
>
>   > I don't think so, but it's easy to write one:
>
> You call that easy ... I'm wondering how long it took you? In any
> case, I honestly admire you. (It only ever LOOKS easy when I try, but
> it always ends up being complicated.)
>
>   > (defun versioned-filename-lessp (a b)
>   >   (labels ((parse (str)
>
> I was wondering about these two functions, "labels" and "parse", but
> emacs does not seem to know them either. Are you assuming that some
> library is loaded, maybe? (I am using Emacs 24.3.1.)

Sure: (require 'cl) should be the first line of all ~/.emacs files.

-- 
__Pascal Bourguignon__                     http://www.informatimago.com/
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of the lisper (; -- antifuchs


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