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Teeny doc bug for the "file-sort" style
- X-seq: zsh-workers 14392
- From: "Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxx
- Subject: Teeny doc bug for the "file-sort" style
- Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 20:05:35 +0000
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Manual says:
... The value may be one of `size' to sort them by the
size of the file, `links' to sort them by the number of links to
the file, `modification' (or `time' or `date') to sort them by the
last modification time, `access' to sort them by the last access
time, or `inode' (or `change') to sort them by the last inode
change time. ... If the value
contains the string `reverse', sorting is done in decreasing order.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The question is, what exactly does "decreasing" mean?
For mod/access/change times, the default ordering of the (om,oa,oc) glob
flags is already from newest to oldest, which sure seems to be "decreasing"
to me. Using "date reverse" in file-sort actually causes the files to be
listed (and completed) from oldest to newest, which I'd call "increasing"
order. It depends on whether you consider time as the absolute value of
the difference from the present, I suppose.
I'm not sure whether to change the doc, or change _path_files to swap the
O/o flags for those three cases. I'd be more inclined to change the doc.
--
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