From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: "Francesco Potortì" <pot@gnu.org>
Cc: 44597@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#44597: 26.3; bibtex should allow reverse sorting
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2020 17:41:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ima7yjp7.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1kdHMM-00C53c-B6@tucano.isti.cnr.it> ("Francesco Potortì"'s message of "Thu, 12 Nov 2020 19:30:14 +0100")
Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org> writes:
> I wish bibtex mode would allow for reverse sorting of entries.
>
> Some years ago I used to obtain that behaviour by advising the sort-subr
> functions when called inside a bibtex-mode buffer. No more.
>
> The modern bibtex.el sorts an entry when bibtex-clean-entry is called
> when bibtex-maintain-sorted-entries is t without calling sort-subr, but
> relying only on bibtex-lessp, which is not easy to advice.
I haven't looked at the code closely, but wouldn't advising bibtex-lessp
to just swap the parameters work?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-14 16:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-12 18:30 bug#44597: 26.3; bibtex should allow reverse sorting Francesco Potortì
2020-11-14 16:41 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2020-11-14 17:31 ` Francesco Potortì
2020-11-16 21:31 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-06 16:16 ` Francesco Potortì
2020-12-07 13:22 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-07 18:00 ` Francesco Potortì
2020-12-09 14:20 ` Roland Winkler
2020-12-09 9:59 ` Francesco Potortì
2020-12-09 12:59 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-12 16:09 ` Roland Winkler
2020-12-13 16:57 ` Francesco Potortì
2020-12-18 22:48 ` Roland Winkler
2020-12-19 0:16 ` Francesco Potortì
2020-12-19 5:05 ` Roland Winkler
2020-12-19 10:37 ` Francesco Potortì
2022-12-30 6:29 ` Roland Winkler
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