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From: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo@gmail.com>
To: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Removing duplicated lines
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 13:18:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH8Pv0iG9Eww6_Roxg3ooEOcJajZ7MjV75gzXxUKktY3dEpCzQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vcco38wm.fsf@gmail.com>

> Something like this ...
>
>     (defun delete-duplicate-lines (beg end)
>       (interactive "r")
>       (let ((lines (split-string (buffer-substring beg end) "\n")))
>         (delete-region beg end)
>         (insert
>          (mapconcat #'identity (delete-dups lines) "\n"))))

Seem to do the job, indeed.  Thanks!

It could be improved by accepting a prefix argument to control an
optional reordering of the region (as side effect):
* If the argument is > 0 --> Region sorted in ascending order.
* If the argument is < 0 --> Region sorted in descending order.
* If the argument is 0 or nil --> Region is left unsorted.

-- 
Dani Moncayo



  reply	other threads:[~2012-11-29 12:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-29 10:50 Removing duplicated lines Dani Moncayo
2012-11-29 12:12 ` Jambunathan K
2012-11-29 12:18   ` Dani Moncayo [this message]
     [not found] <mailman.14043.1354186273.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-11-29 11:06 ` Sebastien Vauban
2012-11-29 11:25   ` Dani Moncayo
2012-11-29 11:57     ` Yuri Khan
2012-11-29 12:07       ` Dani Moncayo
     [not found]     ` <mailman.14047.1354190273.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-07-03 12:13       ` naisanza
2012-11-29 11:31   ` Yuri Khan
2013-07-03 12:14   ` naisanza

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