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From: Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com>
To: Tim Landscheidt <tim@tim-landscheidt.de>
Cc: Help GNU Emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: TIL about string-rectangle
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2020 16:11:57 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANc-5Uz-_cw3S9Nq4c=rrBGg3JuEDuxPaGQvBcmPPrp6e=fWBw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a6tvkmaf.fsf@passepartout.tim-landscheidt.de>

> 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.

Skip



  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-30 22:11 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 [this message]
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
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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