From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Skip Montanaro Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: TIL about string-rectangle Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2020 06:44:37 -0600 Message-ID: References: <87a6tvkmaf.fsf@passepartout.tim-landscheidt.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="12102"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: Help GNU Emacs , Tim Landscheidt To: Yuri Khan Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 31 13:45:27 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kuxKY-00034T-WE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 31 Dec 2020 13:45:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34154 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kuxKY-0006T8-1X for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 31 Dec 2020 07:45:26 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:50644) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kuxJy-0006Sp-0T for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Dec 2020 07:44:50 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-yb1-xb2a.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4864:20::b2a]:46278) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kuxJw-0002Gg-9y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Dec 2020 07:44:49 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-yb1-xb2a.google.com with SMTP id f6so17310651ybq.13 for ; Thu, 31 Dec 2020 04:44:47 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=+rPuuCHn8OxgpaNppJHK5QdRMjYNeTZYyQ4AJaIWTEc=; b=KeC/ZRZXBnEi7bfqOemgAMzVcK6vU+qKz+qS+w2DrZS22puN4HMGOjjw52gtKYxig7 Mh9XrqIiqdv95Zk1EmY3PtYLSy56/OQtksrQT/XAMkZzJT8+Cx0IVLS6mUXYmrZP0+6b ZEoMwqh7VS59b7b6ClWbrpuf099gSrc2MZ8hFCcmEYIDJhnStg+bdVmSRe24CZFXdD0g Yd/fn6UVEgXMHzOChNALg9x2qM8AeOj07ZrufDX314Q6dPtu8GjbRfUF1NDquDWZ/eOQ Ak5RCQ63xkO7uENipW5tU40J3GiXayoSfwAVfbLMFauysq5351eEFcG5TBz3SCOZz4P0 VW/g== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=+rPuuCHn8OxgpaNppJHK5QdRMjYNeTZYyQ4AJaIWTEc=; b=lINdlWT7uGoWXYsNnJoEjOxv6/e7sk+UfsuuWD0UnOlWe0gXKsa8f7KCtJAzVNq2t4 wkAcarGnwXErx8nee/N01StkAx3CLZ7HV29T+3Zw0/fOUqcJjko6h9xLU79siwnZEa5P sPBeEz0RrbKNS1S1y6H9g+Syjs4MJH34g58qZd30zl24wAxaja/3lnvezWlzqozmyv43 4rSV/6oumh8itdIJInSGE9sek5tyMsoV49ZL03AHc5zwpU7C/oGF8VTp6Mr2DUBgrw46 1wBqrA2A8MS4l6zJa1TEgUFIjjuNMVRLfQFK91wqkSZ+0qPSJiozx2zMN8c96KjMdqyH jnDw== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM531nELwK5oAwNCawydO05XticatXGARk+keEutx2DJn8FpyKuVae winjoR7jmkuVJZlyDbODAxxX5t4lQqc3yB6LqzJtnLc= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJwDVzE12JFisL0stbMEFYMkxZOPvrsxfLe/fh3ItaYk84hklYTfHIkcWra6wOVja1zW4P2gbzPy2Oya81Nq8pg= X-Received: by 2002:a25:e694:: with SMTP id d142mr79283883ybh.494.1609418687097; Thu, 31 Dec 2020 04:44:47 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=2607:f8b0:4864:20::b2a; envelope-from=skip.montanaro@gmail.com; helo=mail-yb1-xb2a.google.com X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, HTML_MESSAGE=0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.23 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:126935 Archived-At: > > You will have an easier time sorting by date if you keep dates in the > ISO 8601 format: YYYY-MM-DD. > Oh, no question. * My source does it the wrong way (a big financial institution who should know better), and the source updates almost daily, so I felt it easier to just leave the dates as-is. Perhaps I should add an extra transformation to the shell pipeline which preprocesses the new inputs. Skip * I use my wife's birthday as a numeric PIN in one situation where we both need to know the number. I tried to explain to her that it is her birthday in sorting order. (She wouldn't know "ISO-8601" from a hole in the ground.) She didn't get it. :-) >