From: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
To: Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com>
Cc: Help GNU Emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
Tim Landscheidt <tim@tim-landscheidt.de>
Subject: Re: TIL about string-rectangle
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2020 15:03:43 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP_d_8U7kMPFkD_WwJ661Sib-Hx8T0VPosc=TAsoMiFUP0RJjg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANc-5Uz-_cw3S9Nq4c=rrBGg3JuEDuxPaGQvBcmPPrp6e=fWBw@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 31 Dec 2020 at 05:13, Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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.
You will have an easier time sorting by date if you keep dates in the
ISO 8601 format: YYYY-MM-DD.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-31 8:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-30 20:59 TIL about string-rectangle Skip Montanaro
2020-12-30 21:37 ` Tim Landscheidt
2020-12-30 22:11 ` Skip Montanaro
2020-12-31 8:03 ` Yuri Khan [this message]
2020-12-31 10:21 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-12-31 12:44 ` Skip Montanaro
2020-12-31 14:32 ` Tim Landscheidt
2020-12-30 21:43 ` Drew Adams
2020-12-30 22:08 ` Skip Montanaro
2020-12-30 23:11 ` Drew Adams
2020-12-30 23:23 ` Drew Adams
2020-12-30 23:24 ` Skip Montanaro
2020-12-31 7:15 ` Sivaram Neelakantan
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