From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Sorting lines by length
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 15:56:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sijr3bzf.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87k353zptq.fsf@hornfels.zedat.fu-berlin.de
"Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> writes:
> Is there a canonical way of sorting lines by length, longest first?
`sort-subr' probably. Use it like
(sort-subr t #'forward-line #'end-of-line nil nil
(lambda (l1 l2)
(apply #'< (mapcar (lambda (range) (- (cdr range) (car range)))
(list l1 l2)))))
You can even modify the lambda to do something more sophisticated like
counting words.
Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-16 13:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-16 12:56 Sorting lines by length Loris Bennett
2014-09-16 13:48 ` Doug Lewan
2014-09-16 13:56 ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
2014-09-17 2:14 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2014-09-17 2:53 ` Drew Adams
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