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From: Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to alphabetasize sections?
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 02:00:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a964jsot.fsf@debian.uxu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.8788.1410564074.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

Robert Thorpe <rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com> writes:

>> One way is to add (or augment) the local variables
>> block in the file to read: % Local variables: %
>> paragraph-separate: "\\section" % End: then save,
>> then revert, then mark the region around all the
>> \section (and text), and type ‘M-x sort-paragraphs
>> RET’.
>
> Another way is to do search and replace (M-%):
> \\section with ^L \\section
>
> Then use sort-pages. Finally M-% again to get rid of
> the ^Ls.

That's very creative, both of you, but isn't the best
way to move all the sections to separate files and then
put one-line references in the "motherfile", and simply
sort those with `sort-lines'?

-- 
underground experts united


       reply	other threads:[~2014-09-13  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.8788.1410564074.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-09-13  0:00 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2014-09-13  0:58   ` How to alphabetasize sections? Thorsten Jolitz
2014-09-13  1:29   ` Robert Thorpe
2014-09-13  7:50   ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
     [not found]   ` <mailman.8807.1410594408.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-09-13 19:22     ` Emanuel Berg
2014-09-15  7:27       ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
     [not found] <mailman.8797.1410571808.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-09-13  5:27 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-09-12  0:29 Sharon Kimble
2014-09-12  7:11 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-09-12 23:20   ` Robert Thorpe
2014-09-12  7:11 ` Sharon Kimble

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