From: Tim Landscheidt <tim@tim-landscheidt.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: TIL about string-rectangle
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2020 14:32:08 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pn2qjbbr.fsf@passepartout.tim-landscheidt.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CANc-5Uz-_cw3S9Nq4c=rrBGg3JuEDuxPaGQvBcmPPrp6e=fWBw@mail.gmail.com
Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com> wrote:
>> For complex sorts, I once wrote a function that enhances
>> sort-regexp-fields (and needs a docstring and comments that
>> I could understand after eight years): ...
> Thanks. I've used the Unix sort(1) command for a few decades now. It's
> kind of burned into my brain. I know Emacs Lisp is exceedingly
> powerful (I used it as my Lisp interpreter as the one and only Lisp
> class I took), but sort(1) does just what I wanted here other than not
> terminating the third (year) field at the comma. It's kind of hard to
> argue with its economy. Regular expressions are quite handy, but also
> pretty verbose for this task.
No doubt. For me, it's the other way round: Whenever
"sort", "sort -n" or "sort -h" is not sufficient, I (usual-
ly) resort to Emacs or Perl. I have looked at sort's -k
option a thousand times and never used it successfully.
Tim
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-31 14:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-30 20:59 TIL about string-rectangle Skip Montanaro
2020-12-30 21:37 ` Tim Landscheidt
2020-12-30 22:11 ` Skip Montanaro
2020-12-31 8:03 ` Yuri Khan
2020-12-31 10:21 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-12-31 12:44 ` Skip Montanaro
2020-12-31 14:32 ` Tim Landscheidt [this message]
2020-12-30 21:43 ` Drew Adams
2020-12-30 22:08 ` Skip Montanaro
2020-12-30 23:11 ` Drew Adams
2020-12-30 23:23 ` Drew Adams
2020-12-30 23:24 ` Skip Montanaro
2020-12-31 7:15 ` Sivaram Neelakantan
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