From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2020 22:50:59 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Sort Info index completions alphabetically
X-Git-Tag: emacs-28.0.90~6371
X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5a1785d58ad807cb8e4af6903313b1c6b49cf572;p=emacs.git

Sort Info index completions alphabetically

* lisp/info.el (Info-complete-menu-item): Sort the list of completions
alphabetically using 'nreverse'.  This makes no difference for Emacs
but helps third-party completion frameworks such as Ivy.  (Bug#38614)

Suggested by Howard Melman <hmelman@gmail.com>.
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diff --git a/lisp/info.el b/lisp/info.el
index 8810bc7a83c..fb47cb4d188 100644
--- a/lisp/info.el
+++ b/lisp/info.el
@@ -2775,6 +2775,8 @@ Because of ambiguities, this should be concatenated with something like
               ;; Go back to the start node (for the next completion).
               (unless (equal Info-current-node orignode)
                 (Info-goto-node orignode))
+              ;; Sort list alphabetically.
+              (setq completions (nreverse completions))
               ;; Update the cache.
               (setq Info-complete-cache
 		   (list Info-current-file Info-current-node