From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Sorting by author name first, then by year
Date: Mon, 24 May 2021 14:53:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k0noz40x.fsf@zoho.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 875yz8jrb6.fsf@web.de
Michael Heerdegen wrote:
>> I have a texinfo file with blocks as below, sorted first by
>> year, then by author surname using strings starting with
>> "bibl-". The contents of each block are embedded within
>> "@ifset" and "@end ifset".
>>
>> Now I want to sort them, first according to surname, then
>> by year, the earlier year put first.
>>
>> So I am looking to make a function that could do it.
>
> I think `sort-subr' is the function to use.
Or `sort-fields' depending on how the data look like.
(defun sort-second-field (beg end)
(interactive "r")
(sort-fields 2 beg end) )
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2021-05-06 22:49 Sorting by author name first, then by year pietru
2021-05-24 11:37 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-05-24 12:53 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [this message]
2021-05-24 18:04 ` Michael Heerdegen
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