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It's ten lines of code that provide their own implementation, meaning you can adjust the behavior in any way you want and that it works anywhere Emacs is supported, even MS-DOS.

A lot of similar use cases are already fulfilled by the built-in functions sort-fields, sort-columns and friends.

Of course you can also enter your external sort command by selecting the text and pressing C-u M-|. Emacs knows how to use external processes. It's very flexible.

>>838331 (OP)

>XEmacs

>not using SXEmacs

Seriously bud?

m-x sort-fields

>>839586

Did you read the comment on the blog? Apparently his "real world data" has spaces in the keys.

I use C-u M-| a lot with sed/sort/expand actually. I spent too much time learning sh/awk so I can't go back now.

>>838331 (OP)

I thought xemacs was dead? Didn't they announce it was discontinued around last December?

>>839896

emacs has been virtually the exact same thing for many years though, who cares

would most people notice if they were using a 10 year out of date copy of emacs? no

Get a real text editor, son.

:sort /[^:]*:/

>>840950

Does that sort in lexicographical or numeric order?

>>840950

Numeric if you use `:sort n /.../`.