On Sat, 9 May 2026 at 22:15, Pádraig Brady <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Pádraig Brady wrote: > >> %% % a literal % > >> %a Sun locale's abbreviated weekday name … > >> %Z EDT alphabetic time zone abbreviation > … > Yes I suppose alphabetic is arbitrary. > I.e. users generally want to know "what letter corresponds to <function>", > not "what <function> corresponds to <letter> .". “It's slower to search by function” could be considered a feature rather than a bug. An alphabetical list is a great aid to memorisation, as rapid confirmations (*1) gives small dopamine hits, while the slower search for what you don't know provides encouragement to do better next time. -Martin *1: locating a letter in an alphabetized vertical list takes only 2 or 3 secades (eye movements), far faster than locating a semantic description among many lines of text.
