Bug 472880

Summary:	Smarter numerical sorting in navigators
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Konstantin Komissarchik <konstantin>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Platform-UI-Inbox <Platform-UI-Inbox>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	Lars.Vogel, psuzzi, sakgoy2001
Version:	4.5
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Konstantin Komissarchik

2015-07-16 17:25:21 EDT

The various file navigators in Eclipse seem to use strictly alphabetical sort order. This is less than ideal when dealing with files that have numerical components.

Sapphire-0.7.x
Sapphire-10.0.x
Sapphire-8.0.x
Sapphire-9.1.x

In comparison, Windows sorts these folders more intelligently.

Sapphire-0.7.x
Sapphire-8.0.x
Sapphire-9.1.x
Sapphire-10.0.x

I propose to implement a similar sort heuristic for Eclipse navigators. The logic is pretty simple. When considering a character in the comparison loop, if it's a digit, consume any trailing digits, then compare as a number instead of as a character.

If there is support for making this change, I will contribute a patch.

Comment 1 Lars Vogel

2015-07-16 22:50:18 EDT

Gerrit review is welcome

Comment 2 Konstantin Komissarchik

2015-07-17 16:41:45 EDT

I can go dig, but do you know off hand which class implements the current navigator sort logic?

Comment 3 Dani Megert

2016-10-28 08:24:52 EDT

*** Bug 506282 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***