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Could we have an alphabetic sort option for tags?

During my effort at building structure and content in the EE.CD tags pages, I found myself often wanting a way to list all the tags in alphabetic order, regardless of their status or their place in the hierarchy.

This is useful for a curator to see if some concept you have in mind already has a tag, but it is also useful for a person in the process of choosing a tag for a question. Yes, you can use the search, but there is the risk of performing the wrong search. Somehow I feel that having the _plain old list_ is more useful for sequential searching.


It is true that usually one relies on the tag suggestions in the tag input field, but it may be a little confusing, especially if a hierarchy is in place. It is indeed very good that tag suggestions also consider the synonyms, but the presentation could be cluttered at times.

I suggest to add an additional button `alphabetical` to tags pages, maybe with a checkbox (somewhere below?) titled something like `include synonyms`, so that someone can see all the tags and, if they so desire, synonyms.