Sortable list of files when using wildcard

[mondeja]

Discussed in #264

^{Originally posted by Adspectus May 4, 2025}
I like the plugin, it almost perfectly matches what I am looking for and suits better than blog or macro or snippets. However, I wished to have the opportunity to sort the resulting list of a wildcard match. Curently it is the sort order of the underlying glob function, I guess. A good starting point would be the reverse order. A more sophisticated version would it to be sorted by any property within the files found.

[mondeja]

A better implementation proposed by ChatGPT:

The most practical approach is for order to accept a sorting criterion as a string. Examples that usually cover most cases:

• name → alphabetical by filename
• mtime → by modification time (oldest first)
• ctime → by creation time
• size → by file size
• path (default) → sort by full path instead of just the base filename.
• extension → sort by file extension (e.g., .md, .txt).

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Additionally, I'm thinking that sort modes could prefix sorting subjects: alpha (default) , random, natural, system (do not sort). And for reverse order add the prefix -.