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Rollup merge of rust-lang#141311 - folkertdev:tidy-natural-sort, r=jieyouxu
make `tidy-alphabetical` use a natural sort
The idea here is that these lines should be correctly sorted, even though a naive string comparison would say they are not:
```
foo2
foo10
```
This is the ["natural sort order"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_sort_order).
There is more discussion in [#t-compiler/help > tidy natural sort](https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/182449-t-compiler.2Fhelp/topic/tidy.20natural.20sort/with/519111079)
Unfortunately, no standard sorting tools are smart enough to to this automatically (casting some doubt on whether we should make this change). Here are some sort outputs:
```
> cat foo.txt | sort
foo
foo1
foo10
foo2
mp
mp1e2
np",
np1e2",
> cat foo.txt | sort -n
foo
foo1
foo10
foo2
mp
mp1e2
np",
np1e2",
> cat foo.txt | sort -V
foo
foo1
foo2
foo10
mp
mp1e2
np1e2",
np",
```
Disappointingly, "numeric" sort does not actually have the behavior we want. It only sorts by numeric value if the line starts with a number. The "version" sort looks promising, but does something very unintuitive if you look at the final 4 values. None of the other options seem to have the desired behavior in all cases:
```
-b, --ignore-leading-blanks ignore leading blanks
-d, --dictionary-order consider only blanks and alphanumeric characters
-f, --ignore-case fold lower case to upper case characters
-g, --general-numeric-sort compare according to general numerical value
-i, --ignore-nonprinting consider only printable characters
-M, --month-sort compare (unknown) < 'JAN' < ... < 'DEC'
-h, --human-numeric-sort compare human readable numbers (e.g., 2K 1G)
-n, --numeric-sort compare according to string numerical value
-R, --random-sort shuffle, but group identical keys. See shuf(1)
--random-source=FILE get random bytes from FILE
-r, --reverse reverse the result of comparisons
--sort=WORD sort according to WORD:
general-numeric -g, human-numeric -h, month -M,
numeric -n, random -R, version -V
-V, --version-sort natural sort of (version) numbers within text
```
r? ```@Noratrieb``` (it sounded like you know this code?)
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