From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#16937: Proposed feature (with patch): sort on multipart keys with sort-regexp-fields Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 16:44:01 +0200 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="266852"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: 16937@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eric Roode Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 26 16:45:14 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hg9Ag-0017EU-CB for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Jun 2019 16:45:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40786 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hg9Af-00068B-Do for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Jun 2019 10:45:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60927) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hg9AY-00065D-9s for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jun 2019 10:45:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hg9AX-0003C3-98 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jun 2019 10:45:06 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:51401) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hg9AX-0003Bw-5i for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jun 2019 10:45:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hg9AU-0007Th-SU for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jun 2019 10:45:04 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 14:45:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 16937 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 16937-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B16937.156156024828594 (code B ref 16937); Wed, 26 Jun 2019 14:45:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 16937) by debbugs.gnu.org; 26 Jun 2019 14:44:08 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36704 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hg99b-0007R8-VO for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jun 2019 10:44:08 -0400 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]:50056) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hg99Z-0007Qz-VC for 16937@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jun 2019 10:44:06 -0400 Original-Received: from cm-84.212.202.86.getinternet.no ([84.212.202.86] helo=stories) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hg99W-0000qO-3B; Wed, 26 Jun 2019 16:44:04 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Eric Roode's message of "Tue, 4 Mar 2014 11:52:21 -0500") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:161504 Archived-At: Eric Roode writes: > It does this by storing a list of backreference numbers in the > `key-regexp' parameter to `sort-regexp-fields'. Then in the > `startkeyfun' function passed to `sort-subr', those backreference > strings are concatenated (separated by a NUL character) to form the > sort key. Sorry for taking so long to get back to you on this, but I don't think this is an ideal design for such a thing, and since it's unfortunately been five years since this was proposed, I'm closing this bug report. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no