Re: TIL about string-rectangle

[Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com>]

> For complex sorts, I once wrote a function that enhances
> sort-regexp-fields (and needs a docstring and comments that
> I could understand after eight years): ...

Thanks. I've used the Unix sort(1) command for a few decades now. It's
kind of burned into my brain. I know Emacs Lisp is exceedingly
powerful (I used it as my Lisp interpreter as the one and only Lisp
class I took), but sort(1) does just what I wanted here other than not
terminating the third (year) field at the comma. It's kind of hard to
argue with its economy. Regular expressions are quite handy, but also
pretty verbose for this task.

Skip