From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Dave Pawson" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Sort data in buffer. Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 10:10:27 +0100 Message-ID: <711a73df0709060210w622da220xc18a8772b14ab90b@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1189069863 1917 80.91.229.12 (6 Sep 2007 09:11:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 09:11:03 +0000 (UTC) To: emac Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 06 11:11:02 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ITDO8-0008Dm-ON for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 11:11:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ITDO6-0005fk-Ox for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 05:10:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ITDNf-0005c7-Ch for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 05:10:31 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ITDNe-0005ZE-29 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 05:10:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ITDNd-0005Ys-Td for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 05:10:29 -0400 Original-Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.198.187]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ITDNd-0000WJ-F0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 05:10:29 -0400 Original-Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id c27so80434rvf for ; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 02:10:27 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; bh=V6LJgp/8UgZD8PCqg5Iy5oQXDWUmwSlHZ+yXEkZRlhE=; b=GIpi+uf+BYWpL8pD67LEiRMXctaH5FkOsmAXVfgIgCtW83Eo4kWGHWijWEn/MtVMtZNm/02VLG7jrPF0q9V5gYrZmhPrkYxsVTmu3BVjjlI/haODCdd5UQxT36KOkPxlZXsPUm6QGFyk+k3U38i05f18LwNCrxIBO574QqF5Mpg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=lYL8I2azItuahFEWgDX6umueEafM4SyUArtDXEmZ+xHAHRkcAmQBcGrY7YpulVFCBQXOtolD4ewmwZRtoOI9rAs6v+OEoWX/5VngiUvabQMjVhg1TMJNXkZ4fj2Y0hCYygf8PHeyFK+TyAN3qP9oEGiJHCn64OjnEgjL8ysTQWg= Original-Received: by 10.140.201.1 with SMTP id y1mr142392rvf.1189069827501; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 02:10:27 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.141.3.17 with HTTP; Thu, 6 Sep 2007 02:10:27 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:47270 Archived-At: I guess it's there, but I couldn't find it. I have a list of data ! H4 % E5 %CHG E5 () D4 (I) H2 (J) H3 +/- D2 , H2 ->C E2 ->cm F4 ->DEG E4 ->F E2 ->gal G3 ->HMS E3 ->IN F4 ->kg F2 ->kM F3 ->lb F2 ->MILE F3 ->RAD E4 ->| G3 /c H3 1/x C6 10^x c6 <- D5 <=ENG D3 = D2 [] D4 A A1 ABS D2 ACOS C2 I.e. not really simple text. I want to sort it alphabetically (ASCII based say), and I can't find out how? How do I do it please. I had to mail it to myself, open in a windows editor, sort it, then mail it back to myself! TIA -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk