Question/confusiong about sort algorithm

[farzadmf]

Hi there, let's say I have the following lines:

01-one
2-two-no-zero
this
is
THIS
Text
text
00-zero

When I sort them (using sort.nvim), I get this:

THIS
Text
is
text
this
00-zero
01-one
2-two-no-zero

Which doesn't seem right 🤔 ... Why are numbered items after all the alphabet characters?

Running :sort on the lines, gives:

00-zero
01-one
2-two-no-zero
THIS
Text
is
text
this

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And side: I understand that uppercase characters are all before lowercase characters, but I find Text before is confusing, and I was wondering if there's a way to actually treat uppercase and lowercase of the same character as "equal"

For example, using sort command (GNU sort 9.7) seems to do the most intuitive sort:

sort sort-test

00-zero
01-one
2-two-no-zero
is
text
Text
this
THIS

[sQVe]

Hey, 👋

You found a legitimate bug - thanks for the detailed report.

Fixed both issues:

1. Numbers sorting after text: Fixed. The natural sorting algorithm was incorrectly segregating numbers from text.
   Now they sort in context like GNU sort.

2. Case sensitivity: Added ignore_case configuration option. GNU sort defaults to case-insensitive in most
   locales, while we default to case-sensitive (like LC_ALL=C sort).

To match GNU sort's default behavior:

require('sort').setup({
  ignore_case = true,
})

Your example now sorts correctly with default settings:

00-zero
01-one
2-two-no-zero
THIS
Text
is
text
this

Or with ignore_case = true:

00-zero
01-one
2-two-no-zero
is
Text
text
THIS
this

Thanks for catching this! ❤️

[farzadmf]

Thanks for the quick action @sQVe ; really appreciate the work you do for this plugin

Can't emphasize enough how much more useful it has become since you added operator support.

I have, literally, OCD with sorting things, and I use your plugin a million times a day

Thank you again and keep up the great work 🚀