Ben - I think what they're trying to tell you, at least about the sort
options, is that the syntax of the provided sort field follows the same
syntax as the commandline sort (so, "man sort" at a terminal prompt, or
google search, can help you out there). I opened a document and confirm
that this
On Thu, 26 May 2022, Ben wrote:
I have no issue with the sorting of file lists in mc. This is about mcedit text
sorts, in the editor, and nothing else.
It's just
$ man sort
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Sincerely yours,
Yury V. Zaytsev
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To be clear, I'm not asking about sorting the file lists in mc.
I'm asking about sorting lines of text in **mcedit.** In mc, hit F4 on a
text file, you're in mcedit.
There's an options menu, that contains a sort command that will sort
selected lines of text (text line selection is done with F3.)