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From: Tim Landscheidt <tim@tim-landscheidt.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Sorting on compound keys?
Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 20:57:03 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3fwo3hl5s.fsf@passepartout.tim-landscheidt.de> (raw)

Hi,

sometimes I want to sort unified diffs of CSV files (sepa-
rated by tabs (here: \t)):

| +A 1\t1\tx
| +A 1\t2\ty
| +B 2\t3\tz
| -A 1\t1\tx
| -B 2\t2\ty
| -B 2\t3\tz

by the second column, then the first column, then "+" vs.
"-". Unfortunately, it seems that sort-regexp-fields doesn't
allow more than one match field as a key. sort-fields
doesn't work either as it requires the fields to be sur-
rounded by white space (no "+" vs. "-") and doesn't allow
white space inside the fields.

  Is there any function in vanilla Emacs (23.1.1) that I
missed? I looked at pimping sort-regexp-fields, but it seems
to me that sort-subr would have to be rewritten from scratch
to achieve sorting on compound keys.

Tim




             reply	other threads:[~2011-05-24 20:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-24 20:57 Tim Landscheidt [this message]
2011-05-25  5:58 ` Sorting on compound keys? Andreas Röhler
2011-05-25 22:08   ` Tim Landscheidt
2011-05-26  6:28     ` Andreas Röhler
2011-05-26 22:49       ` Tim Landscheidt
2011-05-29 20:17         ` Andreas Röhler
2011-06-10  0:26           ` Tim Landscheidt
2011-06-13  7:32             ` Andreas Röhler
2011-05-29 21:50 ` Mark Tilford
2011-06-10  0:27   ` Tim Landscheidt

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