From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: gregory@dynapse.com (Gregory J. Grubbs) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Alphabetizing comma separated lists Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:38:25 -0600 Message-ID: <871vler1vy.fsf@dynapse.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1254973247 26780 80.91.229.12 (8 Oct 2009 03:40:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 03:40:47 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 08 05:40:37 2009 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 1Mvjro-0001jk-9u for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Oct 2009 05:40:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33462 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mvjrn-0006C9-Hh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:40:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MvjrP-0006Bw-TV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:40:11 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MvjrL-0006BT-5M for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:40:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35950 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MvjrL-0006BQ-2Z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:40:07 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:38996) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MvjrK-0006tD-P6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:40:06 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1MvjrI-0001aO-5D for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Oct 2009 05:40:04 +0200 Original-Received: from 72.42.83.192 ([72.42.83.192]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 08 Oct 2009 05:40:04 +0200 Original-Received: from gregory by 72.42.83.192 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 08 Oct 2009 05:40:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 72.42.83.192 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:AQfmcsSvo01+wbNZhK3vSWqd0SE= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:68760 Archived-At: James writes: > For example, I want this: > def, acb, lmn, ghi > > To appear like this: > acb, def, ghi, lmn > > Is there a way to do this in Emacs? > > Any help would be appreciated, > James You could highlight the line or lines, then do --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- M-: (sort-regexp-fields nil "[a-z]+" "\\&" (region-beginning) (region-end)) RET --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- The above splits the region into fields based on a regexp, and sorts it