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From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
To: Jon Snader <jsnader@mac.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Patch to implement sorting Org tables by IP address
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 23:58:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r3w4a326.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D3428DB4-7D59-4EBE-9D01-3A6D5A84C47B@mac.com> (Jon Snader's message of "Tue, 09 Dec 2014 14:16:28 -0500")

Hello,

Jon Snader <jsnader@mac.com> writes:

> There is currently no easy way to sort an Org table by IP address. The
> only method I could find involves selecting the IP addresses in
> a rectangle and piping them to sort with a complicated sort recipe.
> Even though I am not a system administrator, I sometimes need to
> maintain tables that I’d like to keep sorted by IP address.
>
> The attached patch implements sorting Org tables natively.

Thank you for your patch.

However I think the feature implemented is too specific. Instead,
`org-do-sort' could provide a way to pass an arbitrary predicate,
like ?f and ?F in `org-sort-list'.

WDYT?


Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou

  reply	other threads:[~2014-12-12 22:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-09 19:16 Patch to implement sorting Org tables by IP address Jon Snader
2014-12-12 22:58 ` Nicolas Goaziou [this message]
2014-12-13 14:19   ` Jon Snader
2014-12-13 14:29     ` Nicolas Goaziou
2014-12-13 15:19       ` Jon Snader
2014-12-13 16:01         ` Nicolas Goaziou
2014-12-13 18:47           ` Jon Snader
2014-12-13 22:07             ` Nicolas Goaziou
2014-12-13 22:37               ` Jon Snader
2014-12-14 11:25                 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2014-12-14 15:19                   ` Jon Snader
2014-12-14 17:18                     ` Nicolas Goaziou
2014-12-17 17:31                       ` Jon Snader
2014-12-20 11:57                         ` Nicolas Goaziou
2014-12-20 18:40                           ` Jon Snader
2014-12-20 20:55                             ` Nicolas Goaziou

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