`sort-lines' on the empty region

`sort-lines' on the empty region

[Simen Heggestøyl]

The current behavior of `sort-lines' on the empty region is to do
nothing. I often find that I want to sort whole buffers at the time,
and I expect `sort-lines' to do just that, before remembering I have
to mark the whole buffer first.

Wouldn't it be convenient to change the behavior of `sort-lines' so
that it sorts the whole buffer if no region is marked? Or is this
inconsistent with how other region-operating functions works?

Re: `sort-lines' on the empty region

[Christopher Schmidt]

simenheg@ifi.uio.no (Simen Heggestøyl) writes:
> Wouldn't it be convenient to change the behavior of `sort-lines' so
> that it sorts the whole buffer if no region is marked? Or is this
> inconsistent with how other region-operating functions works?

Yes, this is inconsistent.  I would not like that behaviour, especially
in non-interactive use.

You can easily achieve what you want by defining a new command or
advicing sort-lines.

        Christopher