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: Re: Sort data in buffer. Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 10:49:39 +0100 Message-ID: <711a73df0709060249h37bb60atf6083ca80e862f8b@mail.gmail.com> References: <87abs0xhr5.fsf@gnuvola.org> 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 1189072219 9721 80.91.229.12 (6 Sep 2007 09:50:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 09:50:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: "Thien-Thi Nguyen" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 06 11:50:18 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 1ITE06-0001DZ-T1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 11:50:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ITE04-0007WA-SO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 05:50:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ITDze-0007TD-DO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 05:49:46 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ITDzb-0007QU-UZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 05:49:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ITDzb-0007QF-LL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 05:49:43 -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 1ITDza-0001wl-A5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 05:49:42 -0400 Original-Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id c27so86134rvf for ; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 02:49:40 -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:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=BcdBKzVSsAHxSn0xIfCjH1TGV9GFyS83PksgVgf+MpQ=; b=JaPzLndrnn0rSii4qlV6d/BxUMWj90keS/eDzvl7Hz0xOD/zj2BV+qf1ZUJPzoDHjmrqu6W8JA7vo0jYW56orqIMV4wY6OFT1afhXGSJILX8UqZ7wkXfBScNDEuDTqgKcfeF2utFPzjxh5cx8ArCXwQPjeFqmhT1lZtk6YGrv10= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=cJScSz0BXAVNaYR+oquxu2ZrbGJhmHbPKZpe8FHYWajnYpdbQoe9C1RyWZ88J+MCvBRsc38EWV2yXqoLM6xQ1lNdSDfDx7qaiRgpMMYoGzKYMuc7tZDclg/QQglOYbeo6aDsLI+ojFEHl6535vbiW8v2WgCrymMq4stRlDVtXQE= Original-Received: by 10.141.146.11 with SMTP id y11mr164122rvn.1189072179702; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 02:49:39 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.141.3.17 with HTTP; Thu, 6 Sep 2007 02:49:39 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87abs0xhr5.fsf@gnuvola.org> 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:47276 Archived-At: On 06/09/07, Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote: > () "Dave Pawson" > () Thu, 6 Sep 2007 10:10:27 +0100 > > I guess it's there, but I couldn't find it. > > how did you search? Clearly not in the right place? The O'Reilly book isn't much help, and the Linux sort didn't do what I want. David Kastrup said, Use the menu Help/Search Documentation/Find Commands by Name and type "^sort" into it. This spews out various sort commands. which gives me the sort I wanted. M-x sort-lines. Perfect. I wonder how many more corners there are to find in emacs :-) Many thanks to you both. regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk