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By: Emacsのbufferでの並べ替え | 武田史郎（Shiro Takeda）

Emacsのbufferでの並べ替え | 武田史郎（Shiro Takeda） — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 10:52:05 +0000

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By: Pedro

Pedro — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:21:39 +0000

Hello my name is Pedro, i’am from Portugal. I’am in the firs year of university and i have to do a program in scheme call’d mastermind. do you have some ideas to the program? i need help! if you can’t it’s ok but i don’t have more options. i find this blog and i think maybe he can help but if you din’t it’s ok! my e-mail is there if you can help send me an e-mail…. Thanks by the way… nice post…

By: Jared

Jared — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 06:33:33 +0000

@Aaron – I think that sort-numeric-fields counts fields based on whitespace, therefore for fixed width fields with a variable number of words it won’t work (e.g. my name field will sometimes have two surnames). Good tip for other data though.

@Sue – sort-subr is even more flexible isn’t it? Pathological example: what if you wanted to sort on the deepest set of brackets?

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@Eisen – portability and flexibility. sort doesn’t exist by default on Windows and can’t handle all my sorting needs in any case.

By: Eisen

Eisen — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 15:50:04 +0000

Why not use ‘sort’ via shell-command-on-region?

By: Sue D. Nymme

Sue D. Nymme — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:35:34 +0000

See also sort-regexp-fields for the ultimate in flexibility.

By: Aaron Peromsik

Aaron Peromsik — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:49:57 +0000

Interesting. See also: sort-numeric-fields .