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I wish it were optional
Authored by: jimhill on Oct 02, '02 10:03:42PM

Coming from a Unix background, I've long accepted lexicographic order as the One True Way and when I discovered OS X's arithmetic order, I ground my teeth and looked long and hard for a fix. Doesn't seem to be one, alas...

"Ball" comes before "Call" because "B" comes before "C".

"12" should come before "2" because "1" comes before "2".

Ratzlefratzle mutter stupid Apple...



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I wish it were optional
Authored by: dr_turgeon on Oct 02, '02 10:16:09PM

Agreed. This should be optional. Somebody out there know if we can hack some plist to toggle this behaviour?



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I wish it were optional
Authored by: Cowboy_X on Oct 08, '02 01:22:41AM

Perhaps it should be optional, but it should definitely be turned on by default. Like the whole case-sensitivity debate, it's fine to let advanced users configure their systems to their own preferences and working habits, but for normal and novice users the system should be simple, intelligent and predictable.



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This SHOULD BE Optional
Authored by: coachjs on Feb 20, '03 01:33:32AM

As an example compare how the same list of folders is sorted in the Finder and the Terminal - this is NOT intelligent sorting:


Folder list sorted correctly by OS X Terminal:
R0204302US
R0205312YS
R0206302YU
R02083121F
R02103122S
R02123123O
R03021426R
R03021829D
R03021929B
R7912312N8
R8912312OA
R9912312OC

Same Folder list sorted by OS X v10.2 Finder:
R02083121F
R02103122S
R02123123O
R03021426R
R03021829D
R03021929B
R7912312N8
R8912312OA
R9912312OC
R0204302US
R0205312YS
R0206302YU

What's up with that?!!



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This SHOULD BE Optional
Authored by: urcindalo on Feb 20, '03 10:30:31AM

So, we actually have both ways of ordering.... ;-)

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