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Re: <x-y> globing pattern doesn't sort?

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From: Louis-David Mitterrand <vindex@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: <x-y> globing pattern doesn't sort?
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 09:26:14 +0200
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On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 05:10:07PM +0100, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> > which really suprised my as I thought the whole point of the <-> pattern
> > was to allow for an ordered sequence to be returned (contrary to a
> > simple *).
> > 
> > Am I mistaken in that belief?
> 
> Yes.  However, you can set the option numeric_glob_sort.  A quick test
> suggests completion will obey this, which does what you want.  Note that
> that's independent of how the matches were generated, however, so
> replacing <1-19> with * wouldn't change the result.

Thanks for the explanation. As always: I had a dream, zsh had it

References:
- <x-y> globing pattern doesn't sort?
  - From: Louis-David Mitterrand
- Re: <x-y> globing pattern doesn't sort?
  - From: Peter Stephenson

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