From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to alphabetasize sections? Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 02:00:02 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87a964jsot.fsf@debian.uxu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1410566725 26330 80.91.229.3 (13 Sep 2014 00:05:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 00:05:25 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 13 02:05:19 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XSaq6-0001Fv-JN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Sep 2014 02:05:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47735 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XSaq6-0007Ss-6Q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Sep 2014 20:05:18 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.stack.nl!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 22 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: P0uMB9BthHuWo8+BJXB4Mw.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:PG3LBTJps6iY/wu7MZrqm+9/DJk= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:207591 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:99865 Archived-At: Robert Thorpe 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