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From: "Štěpán Němec" <stepnem@gmail.com>
To: Roland Hughes <roland@logikalsolutions.com>
Cc: 40697@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#40697: 25.3; sort-lines not accepting reverse parameter
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2020 21:12:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871rok7glz.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c6a317ad-5f57-fcf2-364e-f30989881cd4@logikalsolutions.com> (Roland Hughes's message of "Sat, 18 Apr 2020 13:45:17 -0500")

On Sat, 18 Apr 2020 13:45:17 -0500
Roland Hughes wrote:

> Okay, I was not descriptive enough.
>
> In interactive mode you cannot enter the argument but according to the
> documentation I should be able to. To enter an argument I would have
> to be able to use the space bar after entering sort-lines. When I try
> using the spacebar I get [SoleCompletion] and no space. Cannot enter
> argument.

I think you misunderstand. The command does not read any arguments. The
"argument" mentioned in the doc string is the interactive _prefix_
argument.

Please do have a look at the manual section I mentioned:

  (info "(emacs) Arguments")

(you can put point after the closing paren and press C-x C-e)

Or even try the Emacs tutorial (C-h t) if it's still unclear.

Also, Eli has since tried to clarify the doc string on the emacs-27
branch:

2020-04-18T19:26:30+03:00!eliz@gnu.org
6c187ed6b0 (Improve documentation of 'sort-lines')
https://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=6c187ed6b0

-- 
Štěpán





  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-18 19:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-18 11:34 bug#40697: 25.3; sort-lines not accepting reverse parameter Roland Hughes
2020-04-18 16:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-18 18:43   ` Roland Hughes
2020-04-18 18:53     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-18 19:05       ` Roland Hughes
2020-04-18 16:15 ` Štěpán Němec
2020-04-18 16:27   ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-13  1:59     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-04-18 18:45   ` Roland Hughes
2020-04-18 19:12     ` Štěpán Němec [this message]
2020-04-18 19:35       ` Roland Hughes
2020-04-18 19:27     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-18 19:48       ` Roland Hughes
2020-04-19 13:08         ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-19 13:40           ` Roland Hughes
2020-04-19 16:21             ` Noam Postavsky
2020-04-19 16:58               ` Roland Hughes

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