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Time Sort (Noguchi) Filing System
- rntz 17y agoThe optimality of move-to-front (under what precise meaning of "optimality" I couldn't tell you) for organizing a list is a fairly well-known result in computer science. Knuth mentions it in TAOCP, vol 3. It's a wonder it took this long for someone to apply this result to real life.
- bayareaguy 17y agoFor documents in a single directory, you can get a similar effect using the 's' key in emacs-dired mode or 'ls -lt' from the shell.