From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Sorting by author name first, then by year
Date: Mon, 24 May 2021 20:04:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871r9wj9eh.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87k0noz40x.fsf@zoho.eu
Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:
> Or `sort-fields' depending on how the data look like.
The data in the original post is multiline, so I think `sort-fields'
can't be used.
Instead it looks like it would involve parsing the records to extract
the fields that sorting should respect, and then compose a sorting
predicate based on these fields.
Michael.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-24 18:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-06 22:49 Sorting by author name first, then by year pietru
2021-05-24 11:37 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-05-24 12:53 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-24 18:04 ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
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