Hi Giovanni,
You need to put the following lines into your .emacs to sort WORDS and
LINES.
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
;;;Sort words
(defun sort-words (reverse beg end)
"Sort words in region alphabetically, in REVERSE if negative.
Prefixed with negative \\[universal-argument], sorts in reverse.
The variable `sort-fold-case' determines whether alphabetic case
affects the sort order.
See `sort-regexp-fields'."
(interactive "*P\nr")
(sort-regexp-fields reverse "\\w+" "\\&" beg end))
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
Then to sort words like
apple, mango, oranges, cat, elephant
You need to do
M-x sort-words
To sort lines, similarly do
M-x sort-lines
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*Sanjib Sikder
*Ph.D. Fellow
Chemical Engineering
IIT Bombay*
*
On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Giovanni Ridolfi <giovanni.rido...@yahoo.it
> wrote:
> Da: Sanjib Sikder <sanjibju2...@gmail.com>
>
> Inviato: Lunedì 22 Ottobre 2012 13:27
>
>
> > I know it is possible to sort words and sort lines alphabetically in
> emacs org-mode
>
> Would you please be so kind to explain to me how?
>
> I have only:
> org-sort-entries M-x ... RET Sort entries on a certain level
> of an outline tree.
> org-sort-list M-x ... RET Sort list items.
> org-table-sort-lines <Sort lines in region> in a
> table.
>
>
> Is it possible to sort words like:
>
> banana fruit chees apple
>
> or lines like
>
>
> banana
>
> fruit
> chees
>
> apple
>
>
>
> > but is it possible to sort phrases ?
>
> > Face the music, Fifteen minutes of fame, A beautiful mind.
> > I want to sort it alphabetically like,
> > A beautiful mind, Face the music, Fifteen minutes of fame.
>
> In Emacs everything is possible.
>
> - substitute "," with \n
> - sort region
> - substitute \n with ","
>
> Cheers,
>
> Giovanni
>
>
