From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [SOLVED] Re: Need help with sort function for tabulated-list-format Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2022 06:39:46 +0300 Message-ID: References: <87bks6pza2.fsf@dataswamp.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="19416"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/+ () (2022-06-11) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 27 06:10:34 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oRn9W-0004v0-B5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 27 Aug 2022 06:10:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40554 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oRn9U-0005ZU-RN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 27 Aug 2022 00:10:32 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:49202) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oRn8i-0005Yc-NR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Aug 2022 00:09:46 -0400 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:37579) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oRn8g-0008MQ-De for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Aug 2022 00:09:43 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:197.239.4.206]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.3,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 00000000000B5B05.00000000630998FE.000047E7; Fri, 26 Aug 2022 21:09:34 -0700 Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87bks6pza2.fsf@dataswamp.org> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -17 X-Spam_score: -1.8 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.8 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_SBL=0.141, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:139114 Archived-At: * Emanuel Berg [2022-08-27 06:31]: > Jean Louis wrote: > > > I guess I solved it by looking into the package package > > Sort the numeric `sort-numeric-fields' fields. That function is for sorting lines in region numerically. While I had to find a function to sort a column within the tabulated list mode. Sample value of `tabulated-list-entries': Value: ((1 ["1" ""]) (2 ["2" "ACTION"]) (3 ["3" "COMPLETED"]) (4 ["4" "PENDING"]) (5 ["5" "UPDATE PENDING"]) (6 ["6" "DECISION REVERSED"])) That means that this first column with "1", "2", that one has to be used for sorting. By sorting it as strings, then it goes like "1" "10" 1 2 ACTION 3 COMPLETED 4 PENDING 5 UPDATE PENDING 6 DECISION REVERSED 6 DECISION REVERSED 5 UPDATE PENDING 4 PENDING 3 COMPLETED 2 ACTION 1 Sorting as strings: (sort '("100" "9" "10" "1") 'string<) ⇒ ("1" "10" "100" "9") That would be incorrect for numbers, rightß Tabulated list mode by default sorts columns by its strings. So I had to make a function that converts strings to numbers, so that we get something like this: (sort '(100 9 10 1) '<) ⇒ (1 9 10 100) Which then makes sense. -- Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns In support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/