Natural Order Sorting

[Clo]

2van Dusen
Good evening !

- Just a time-shift of 4' shows that the forum provides a good support… Moreover, I'm very concerned by that topic, because :
«It works too under Win 98 SE if you have IE 6.0 installed. Found out by chance… by myself »
- Anyway, two close replies are always better than none…

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Claude
Clo

[chea]

Thanks, guys!

I chose the number 3, even tho I don't have IE6 installed. It works fine.


I'm off reading the tutorials, now. Better late than never...

[Lefteous]

2chea

I chose the number 3, even tho I don't have IE6 installed. It works fine.

In case IE 6 is not installed SortUpper=2 is used. This is also a natural sorting method but it's unable to sort language-specific characters properly.

[qda]

just wanted to say: it took me a while to figure out that natural sorting exists in the program

and it is awesome

thanks ghisler for updating it so well and listening to requests!

[ThurahT]

Just for your info, I have now added natural sorting to TC. The above code wasn't quite what I expected (too simple), so I wrote my own. I will consider a method to change the sort type quickly.

I wonder if this got implemented (the change Sort Method quickly part)? And what the keyboard shortcut to toggle between Sort Methods is since I can't find it?

I tried to make my own keyboard shortcut for that but couldn't find the proper cm_? to do so. The ones I found was for columns. So what I want is to have one command for toggling through all the SortUpper=0/1/2/3 there is.

[petermad]

2ThurahT

There are currently (TC 7.56a) no internal commands (cm_ commands) for the different sort-upper options.

[ThurahT]

Oh. Well that explains why I didn't find it then. Maybe I should post it as a feature request somewhere, because I think it'd be nice to be able to do it quickly with a single command instead of: alt+o->o->down->alt+m->down/up->enter (english). Thx for your reply.

[MVV]

I don't understand why do you need to switch sorting so often at all.
Different sortings may confuse, especially in some cases (that's why I hate natural sortings - they doesn't understand HEX numeration like test_01, test_02, ..., test_09, test_0A, test_0B, ..., test_10, ...).

[Vochomurka]

I agree with ThurahT. Just one our ago I have needed to dynamically switch the SortUpper key...

[ThurahT]

I don't understand why do you need to switch sorting so often at all.
Different sortings may confuse, especially in some cases (that's why I hate natural sortings - they doesn't understand HEX numeration like test_01, test_02, ..., test_09, test_0A, test_0B, ..., test_10, ...).

I totally agree with you. That is the preferred naming and sorting I would choose also. But sometimes you get assigned tasks which deals with very tricky sorting done by others not so enlightened and you have to switch a lot back and forth between multiple dirs with different sort orders.

[Balderstrom]

Likewise, I've had need to change sorting on the fly.
The sort method is similiar to display switches: Show/Hidden Sys, 8.3 FileNames, "No Sorting", Sort folders with FileNames, Sort by Columns, Reverse Sort.

I wouldn't necessarily want the command to change the INI file's chosen default sort-method, as opposed to being able to change the sort-method for a given tab - and have that method/override saved with the tab. With it being a TC command, it would also be able to be displayed in the Menu's to see which sort method is active [checkbox].

Although that in and of itself goes along with other requests of myself and others to allow Filtering per tab - instead of only per panel

[trevor12]

I use default sort-method (I did not know about natural sorting) so when I want (especially for viewing jpg files in irfanview)

file3.jpg, file20.jpg, file2.jpg, file10.jpg, file1.jpg to be sorted like this: file1.jpg, file2.jpg, file3.jpg, file10.jpg, file20.jpg

I use multi rename function and add 0 before number(s) in filenames

that is

file3.jpg, file20.jpg, file2.jpg, file10.jpg, file1.jpg is renamed to file01.jpg, file02.jpg, file03.jpg, file010.jpg, file020.jpg