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55535639 1;;; sort.el --- commands to sort text in an Emacs buffer
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4cc7cae8 3;; Copyright (C) 1986, 1987, 1994, 1995, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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5;; Author: Howie Kaye
6;; Maintainer: FSF
d7b4d18f 7;; Keywords: unix
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9;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
10
11;; GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
12;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
e5167999 13;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
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14;; any later version.
15
16;; GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
17;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
18;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
19;; GNU General Public License for more details.
20
21;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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22;; along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the
23;; Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
24;; Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
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26;;; Commentary:
27
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28;; This package provides the sorting facilities documented in the Emacs
29;; user's manual.
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e5167999 31;;; Code:
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33(defgroup sort nil
34 "Commands to sort text in an Emacs buffer."
35 :group 'data)
36
37(defcustom sort-fold-case nil
38 "*Non-nil if the buffer sort functions should ignore case."
39 :group 'sort
40 :type 'boolean)
faf603f3 41
32033024 42;;;###autoload
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43(defun sort-subr (reverse nextrecfun endrecfun
44 &optional startkeyfun endkeyfun predicate)
d32200ac 45 "General text sorting routine to divide buffer into records and sort them.
d32200ac 46
a08caf95 47We divide the accessible portion of the buffer into disjoint pieces
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48called sort records. A portion of each sort record (perhaps all of
49it) is designated as the sort key. The records are rearranged in the
50buffer in order by their sort keys. The records may or may not be
51contiguous.
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52
53Usually the records are rearranged in order of ascending sort key.
54If REVERSE is non-nil, they are rearranged in order of descending sort key.
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55The variable `sort-fold-case' determines whether alphabetic case affects
56the sort order.
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57
58The next four arguments are functions to be called to move point
59across a sort record. They will be called many times from within sort-subr.
60
61NEXTRECFUN is called with point at the end of the previous record.
62It moves point to the start of the next record.
63It should move point to the end of the buffer if there are no more records.
64The first record is assumed to start at the position of point when sort-subr
65is called.
66
13f4b6b3 67ENDRECFUN is called with point within the record.
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68It should move point to the end of the record.
69
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70STARTKEYFUN moves from the start of the record to the start of the key.
71It may return either a non-nil value to be used as the key, or
a08caf95 72else the key is the substring between the values of point after
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73STARTKEYFUN and ENDKEYFUN are called. If STARTKEYFUN is nil, the key
74starts at the beginning of the record.
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75
76ENDKEYFUN moves from the start of the sort key to the end of the sort key.
77ENDKEYFUN may be nil if STARTKEYFUN returns a value or if it would be the
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78same as ENDRECFUN.
79
80PREDICATE is the function to use to compare keys. If keys are numbers,
81it defaults to `<', otherwise it defaults to `string<'."
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82 ;; Heuristically try to avoid messages if sorting a small amt of text.
83 (let ((messages (> (- (point-max) (point-min)) 50000)))
84 (save-excursion
85 (if messages (message "Finding sort keys..."))
86 (let* ((sort-lists (sort-build-lists nextrecfun endrecfun
87 startkeyfun endkeyfun))
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88 (old (reverse sort-lists))
89 (case-fold-search sort-fold-case))
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90 (if (null sort-lists)
91 ()
92 (or reverse (setq sort-lists (nreverse sort-lists)))
93 (if messages (message "Sorting records..."))
94 (setq sort-lists
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95 (sort sort-lists
96 (cond (predicate
97 `(lambda (a b) (,predicate (car a) (car b))))
98 ((numberp (car (car sort-lists)))
99 'car-less-than-car)
100 ((consp (car (car sort-lists)))
101 (lambda (a b)
102 (> 0 (compare-buffer-substrings
103 nil (car (car a)) (cdr (car a))
104 nil (car (car b)) (cdr (car b))))))
105 (t
106 (lambda (a b) (string< (car a) (car b)))))))
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107 (if reverse (setq sort-lists (nreverse sort-lists)))
108 (if messages (message "Reordering buffer..."))
109 (sort-reorder-buffer sort-lists old)))
110 (if messages (message "Reordering buffer... Done"))))
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111 nil)
112
113;; Parse buffer into records using the arguments as Lisp expressions;
e453d35a 114;; return a list of records. Each record looks like (KEY STARTPOS . ENDPOS)
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115;; where KEY is the sort key (a number or string),
116;; and STARTPOS and ENDPOS are the bounds of this record in the buffer.
117
118;; The records appear in the list lastmost first!
119
120(defun sort-build-lists (nextrecfun endrecfun startkeyfun endkeyfun)
121 (let ((sort-lists ())
122 (start-rec nil)
123 done key)
124 ;; Loop over sort records.
125 ;(goto-char (point-min)) -- it is the caller's responsibility to
126 ;arrange this if necessary
127 (while (not (eobp))
128 (setq start-rec (point)) ;save record start
129 (setq done nil)
130 ;; Get key value, or move to start of key.
131 (setq key (catch 'key
132 (or (and startkeyfun (funcall startkeyfun))
133 ;; If key was not returned as value,
134 ;; move to end of key and get key from the buffer.
135 (let ((start (point)))
136 (funcall (or endkeyfun
137 (prog1 endrecfun (setq done t))))
4f1b6c54 138 (cons start (point))))))
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139 ;; Move to end of this record (start of next one, or end of buffer).
140 (cond ((prog1 done (setq done nil)))
141 (endrecfun (funcall endrecfun))
142 (nextrecfun (funcall nextrecfun) (setq done t)))
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143 (if key (push
144 ;; consing optimization in case in which key is same as record.
145 (if (and (consp key)
146 (equal (car key) start-rec)
147 (equal (cdr key) (point)))
148 (cons key key)
149 (cons key (cons start-rec (point))))
150 sort-lists))
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151 (and (not done) nextrecfun (funcall nextrecfun)))
152 sort-lists))
153
154(defun sort-reorder-buffer (sort-lists old)
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155 (let ((last (point-min))
156 (min (point-min)) (max (point-max))
157 (old-buffer (current-buffer))
158 temp-buffer)
159 (with-temp-buffer
160 ;; Record the temporary buffer.
161 (setq temp-buffer (current-buffer))
162
163 ;; Copy the sorted text into the temporary buffer.
164 (while sort-lists
165 (goto-char (point-max))
166 (insert-buffer-substring old-buffer
167 last
168 (nth 1 (car old)))
169 (goto-char (point-max))
170 (insert-buffer-substring old-buffer
171 (nth 1 (car sort-lists))
172 (cdr (cdr (car sort-lists))))
173 (setq last (cdr (cdr (car old)))
174 sort-lists (cdr sort-lists)
175 old (cdr old)))
d32200ac 176 (goto-char (point-max))
ce4ef587 177 (insert-buffer-substring old-buffer last max)
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178
179 ;; Copy the reordered text from the temporary buffer
180 ;; to the buffer we sorted (OLD-BUFFER).
181 (set-buffer old-buffer)
182 (let ((inhibit-quit t))
183 ;; Make sure insertions done for reordering
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184 ;; saves any markers at the end of the sorted region,
185 ;; by leaving the last character of the region.
186 (delete-region min (1- max))
187 ;; Now replace the one remaining old character with the sorted text.
188 (goto-char (point-min))
ce4ef587 189 (insert-buffer-substring temp-buffer)
9b392284 190 (delete-region max (1+ max))))))
d32200ac 191
f9f9507e 192;;;###autoload
f1180544 193(defun sort-lines (reverse beg end)
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194 "Sort lines in region alphabetically; argument means descending order.
195Called from a program, there are three arguments:
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196REVERSE (non-nil means reverse order), BEG and END (region to sort).
197The variable `sort-fold-case' determines whether alphabetic case affects
198the sort order."
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199 (interactive "P\nr")
200 (save-excursion
201 (save-restriction
202 (narrow-to-region beg end)
203 (goto-char (point-min))
204 (sort-subr reverse 'forward-line 'end-of-line))))
205
f9f9507e 206;;;###autoload
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207(defun sort-paragraphs (reverse beg end)
208 "Sort paragraphs in region alphabetically; argument means descending order.
209Called from a program, there are three arguments:
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210REVERSE (non-nil means reverse order), BEG and END (region to sort).
211The variable `sort-fold-case' determines whether alphabetic case affects
212the sort order."
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213 (interactive "P\nr")
214 (save-excursion
215 (save-restriction
216 (narrow-to-region beg end)
217 (goto-char (point-min))
218 (sort-subr reverse
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219 (function
220 (lambda ()
221 (while (and (not (eobp)) (looking-at paragraph-separate))
222 (forward-line 1))))
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223 'forward-paragraph))))
224
f9f9507e 225;;;###autoload
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226(defun sort-pages (reverse beg end)
227 "Sort pages in region alphabetically; argument means descending order.
228Called from a program, there are three arguments:
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229REVERSE (non-nil means reverse order), BEG and END (region to sort).
230The variable `sort-fold-case' determines whether alphabetic case affects
231the sort order."
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232 (interactive "P\nr")
233 (save-excursion
234 (save-restriction
235 (narrow-to-region beg end)
236 (goto-char (point-min))
237 (sort-subr reverse
238 (function (lambda () (skip-chars-forward "\n")))
239 'forward-page))))
240\f
241(defvar sort-fields-syntax-table nil)
242(if sort-fields-syntax-table nil
243 (let ((table (make-syntax-table))
244 (i 0))
245 (while (< i 256)
246 (modify-syntax-entry i "w" table)
247 (setq i (1+ i)))
248 (modify-syntax-entry ?\ " " table)
249 (modify-syntax-entry ?\t " " table)
250 (modify-syntax-entry ?\n " " table)
251 (modify-syntax-entry ?\. "_" table) ; for floating pt. numbers. -wsr
252 (setq sort-fields-syntax-table table)))
253
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254(defcustom sort-numeric-base 10
255 "*The default base used by `sort-numeric-fields'."
256 :group 'sort
257 :type 'integer)
258
f9f9507e 259;;;###autoload
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260(defun sort-numeric-fields (field beg end)
261 "Sort lines in region numerically by the ARGth field of each line.
262Fields are separated by whitespace and numbered from 1 up.
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263Specified field must contain a number in each line of the region,
264which may begin with \"0x\" or \"0\" for hexadecimal and octal values.
265Otherwise, the number is interpreted according to sort-numeric-base.
2af3a0e3 266With a negative arg, sorts by the ARGth field counted from the right.
d32200ac 267Called from a program, there are three arguments:
4138e600 268FIELD, BEG and END. BEG and END specify region to sort."
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269 (interactive "p\nr")
270 (sort-fields-1 field beg end
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271 (lambda ()
272 (sort-skip-fields field)
273 (let* ((case-fold-search t)
274 (base
275 (if (looking-at "\\(0x\\)[0-9a-f]\\|\\(0\\)[0-7]")
276 (cond ((match-beginning 1)
277 (goto-char (match-end 1))
278 16)
279 ((match-beginning 2)
280 (goto-char (match-end 2))
281 8)
282 (t nil)))))
283 (string-to-number (buffer-substring (point)
284 (save-excursion
285 (forward-sexp 1)
286 (point)))
287 (or base sort-numeric-base))))
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288 nil))
289
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290;;;;;###autoload
291;;(defun sort-float-fields (field beg end)
292;; "Sort lines in region numerically by the ARGth field of each line.
293;;Fields are separated by whitespace and numbered from 1 up. Specified field
294;;must contain a floating point number in each line of the region. With a
295;;negative arg, sorts by the ARGth field counted from the right. Called from a
296;;program, there are three arguments: FIELD, BEG and END. BEG and END specify
297;;region to sort."
298;; (interactive "p\nr")
299;; (sort-fields-1 field beg end
300;; (function (lambda ()
301;; (sort-skip-fields field)
302;; (string-to-number
303;; (buffer-substring
304;; (point)
305;; (save-excursion
306;; (re-search-forward
307;; "[+-]?[0-9]*\.?[0-9]*\\([eE][+-]?[0-9]+\\)?")
308;; (point))))))
309;; nil))
2af3a0e3 310
f9f9507e 311;;;###autoload
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312(defun sort-fields (field beg end)
313 "Sort lines in region lexicographically by the ARGth field of each line.
314Fields are separated by whitespace and numbered from 1 up.
2af3a0e3 315With a negative arg, sorts by the ARGth field counted from the right.
d32200ac 316Called from a program, there are three arguments:
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317FIELD, BEG and END. BEG and END specify region to sort.
318The variable `sort-fold-case' determines whether alphabetic case affects
319the sort order."
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320 (interactive "p\nr")
321 (sort-fields-1 field beg end
322 (function (lambda ()
220eb88b 323 (sort-skip-fields field)
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324 nil))
325 (function (lambda () (skip-chars-forward "^ \t\n")))))
326
327(defun sort-fields-1 (field beg end startkeyfun endkeyfun)
2af3a0e3 328 (let ((tbl (syntax-table)))
329 (if (zerop field) (setq field 1))
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330 (unwind-protect
331 (save-excursion
332 (save-restriction
333 (narrow-to-region beg end)
334 (goto-char (point-min))
335 (set-syntax-table sort-fields-syntax-table)
2af3a0e3 336 (sort-subr nil
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337 'forward-line 'end-of-line
338 startkeyfun endkeyfun)))
339 (set-syntax-table tbl))))
340
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341;; Position at the beginning of field N on the current line,
342;; assuming point is initially at the beginning of the line.
d32200ac 343(defun sort-skip-fields (n)
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344 (if (> n 0)
345 ;; Skip across N - 1 fields.
346 (let ((i (1- n)))
347 (while (> i 0)
348 (skip-chars-forward " \t")
349 (skip-chars-forward "^ \t\n")
350 (setq i (1- i)))
351 (skip-chars-forward " \t")
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352 (if (eolp)
353 (error "Line has too few fields: %s"
354 (buffer-substring
355 (save-excursion (beginning-of-line) (point))
356 (save-excursion (end-of-line) (point))))))
357 (end-of-line)
358 ;; Skip back across - N - 1 fields.
359 (let ((i (1- (- n))))
360 (while (> i 0)
361 (skip-chars-backward " \t")
362 (skip-chars-backward "^ \t\n")
363 (setq i (1- i)))
364 (skip-chars-backward " \t"))
365 (if (bolp)
d32200ac 366 (error "Line has too few fields: %s"
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367 (buffer-substring
368 (save-excursion (beginning-of-line) (point))
369 (save-excursion (end-of-line) (point)))))
370 ;; Position at the front of the field
371 ;; even if moving backwards.
372 (skip-chars-backward "^ \t\n")))
d32200ac 373\f
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374(defvar sort-regexp-fields-regexp)
375(defvar sort-regexp-record-end)
376
377;; Move to the beginning of the next match for record-regexp,
378;; and set sort-regexp-record-end to the end of that match.
379;; If the next match is empty and does not advance point,
380;; skip one character and try again.
381(defun sort-regexp-fields-next-record ()
382 (let ((oldpos (point)))
383 (and (re-search-forward sort-regexp-fields-regexp nil 'move)
384 (setq sort-regexp-record-end (match-end 0))
385 (if (= sort-regexp-record-end oldpos)
386 (progn
387 (forward-char 1)
388 (re-search-forward sort-regexp-fields-regexp nil 'move)
389 (setq sort-regexp-record-end (match-end 0)))
390 t)
391 (goto-char (match-beginning 0)))))
392
f9f9507e 393;;;###autoload
d32200ac 394(defun sort-regexp-fields (reverse record-regexp key-regexp beg end)
eb8c3be9 395 "Sort the region lexicographically as specified by RECORD-REGEXP and KEY.
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396RECORD-REGEXP specifies the textual units which should be sorted.
397 For example, to sort lines RECORD-REGEXP would be \"^.*$\"
398KEY specifies the part of each record (ie each match for RECORD-REGEXP)
399 is to be used for sorting.
8e5b59e1 400 If it is \"\\\\digit\" then the digit'th \"\\\\(...\\\\)\" match field from
d32200ac 401 RECORD-REGEXP is used.
8e5b59e1 402 If it is \"\\\\&\" then the whole record is used.
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403 Otherwise, it is a regular-expression for which to search within the record.
404If a match for KEY is not found within a record then that record is ignored.
405
406With a negative prefix arg sorts in reverse order.
407
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408The variable `sort-fold-case' determines whether alphabetic case affects
409the sort order.
410
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411For example: to sort lines in the region by the first word on each line
412 starting with the letter \"f\",
8e5b59e1 413 RECORD-REGEXP would be \"^.*$\" and KEY would be \"\\\\=\\<f\\\\w*\\\\>\""
2af3a0e3 414 ;; using negative prefix arg to mean "reverse" is now inconsistent with
415 ;; other sort-.*fields functions but then again this was before, since it
416 ;; didn't use the magnitude of the arg to specify anything.
f1180544 417 (interactive "P\nsRegexp specifying records to sort:
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418sRegexp specifying key within record: \nr")
419 (cond ((or (equal key-regexp "") (equal key-regexp "\\&"))
420 (setq key-regexp 0))
421 ((string-match "\\`\\\\[1-9]\\'" key-regexp)
422 (setq key-regexp (- (aref key-regexp 1) ?0))))
423 (save-excursion
424 (save-restriction
425 (narrow-to-region beg end)
426 (goto-char (point-min))
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427 (let (sort-regexp-record-end
428 (sort-regexp-fields-regexp record-regexp))
4cc7cae8 429 (re-search-forward sort-regexp-fields-regexp nil t)
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430 (setq sort-regexp-record-end (point))
431 (goto-char (match-beginning 0))
432 (sort-subr reverse
387f3b21 433 'sort-regexp-fields-next-record
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434 (function (lambda ()
435 (goto-char sort-regexp-record-end)))
436 (function (lambda ()
437 (let ((n 0))
438 (cond ((numberp key-regexp)
439 (setq n key-regexp))
440 ((re-search-forward
441 key-regexp sort-regexp-record-end t)
442 (setq n 0))
443 (t (throw 'key nil)))
444 (condition-case ()
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445 (cons (match-beginning n)
446 (match-end n))
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447 ;; if there was no such register
448 (error (throw 'key nil)))))))))))
449
450\f
451(defvar sort-columns-subprocess t)
452
f9f9507e 453;;;###autoload
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454(defun sort-columns (reverse &optional beg end)
455 "Sort lines in region alphabetically by a certain range of columns.
02ebb2ea 456For the purpose of this command, the region BEG...END includes
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457the entire line that point is in and the entire line the mark is in.
458The column positions of point and mark bound the range of columns to sort on.
02ebb2ea 459A prefix argument means sort into REVERSE order.
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460The variable `sort-fold-case' determines whether alphabetic case affects
461the sort order.
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462
463Note that `sort-columns' rejects text that contains tabs,
464because tabs could be split across the specified columns
465and it doesn't know how to handle that. Also, when possible,
466it uses the `sort' utility program, which doesn't understand tabs.
467Use \\[untabify] to convert tabs to spaces before sorting."
468 (interactive "P\nr")
469 (save-excursion
470 (let (beg1 end1 col-beg1 col-end1 col-start col-end)
471 (goto-char (min beg end))
472 (setq col-beg1 (current-column))
473 (beginning-of-line)
474 (setq beg1 (point))
475 (goto-char (max beg end))
476 (setq col-end1 (current-column))
477 (forward-line)
478 (setq end1 (point))
479 (setq col-start (min col-beg1 col-end1))
480 (setq col-end (max col-beg1 col-end1))
481 (if (search-backward "\t" beg1 t)
c47e669b 482 (error "sort-columns does not work with tabs -- use M-x untabify"))
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483 (if (not (or (memq system-type '(vax-vms windows-nt))
484 (let ((pos beg1) plist fontified)
485 (catch 'found
486 (while (< pos end1)
487 (setq plist (text-properties-at pos))
488 (setq fontified (plist-get plist 'fontified))
489 (while (consp plist)
490 (unless (or (eq (car plist) 'fontified)
491 (and (eq (car plist) 'face)
492 fontified))
493 (throw 'found t))
494 (setq plist (cddr plist)))
495 (setq pos (next-property-change pos nil end1)))))))
d32200ac 496 ;; Use the sort utility if we can; it is 4 times as fast.
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497 ;; Do not use it if there are any non-font-lock properties
498 ;; in the region, since the sort utility would lose the
499 ;; properties.
c844fe9d 500 (let ((sort-args (list (if reverse "-rt\n" "-t\n")
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501 (concat "+0." (int-to-string col-start))
502 (concat "-0." (int-to-string col-end)))))
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503 (when sort-fold-case
504 (push "-f" sort-args))
505 (apply #'call-process-region beg1 end1 "sort" t t nil sort-args))
6b61353c 506 ;; On VMS and ms-windows, use Emacs's own facilities.
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507 (save-excursion
508 (save-restriction
509 (narrow-to-region beg1 end1)
510 (goto-char beg1)
511 (sort-subr reverse 'forward-line 'end-of-line
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512 #'(lambda () (move-to-column col-start) nil)
513 #'(lambda () (move-to-column col-end) nil))))))))
2af3a0e3 514
f9f9507e 515;;;###autoload
2af3a0e3 516(defun reverse-region (beg end)
517 "Reverse the order of lines in a region.
518From a program takes two point or marker arguments, BEG and END."
519 (interactive "r")
520 (if (> beg end)
521 (let (mid) (setq mid end end beg beg mid)))
522 (save-excursion
523 ;; put beg at the start of a line and end and the end of one --
524 ;; the largest possible region which fits this criteria
525 (goto-char beg)
526 (or (bolp) (forward-line 1))
527 (setq beg (point))
528 (goto-char end)
529 ;; the test for bolp is for those times when end is on an empty line;
530 ;; it is probably not the case that the line should be included in the
531 ;; reversal; it isn't difficult to add it afterward.
532 (or (and (eolp) (not (bolp))) (progn (forward-line -1) (end-of-line)))
533 (setq end (point-marker))
534 ;; the real work. this thing cranks through memory on large regions.
535 (let (ll (do t))
536 (while do
537 (goto-char beg)
538 (setq ll (cons (buffer-substring (point) (progn (end-of-line) (point)))
539 ll))
540 (setq do (/= (point) end))
541 (delete-region beg (if do (1+ (point)) (point))))
542 (while (cdr ll)
543 (insert (car ll) "\n")
544 (setq ll (cdr ll)))
545 (insert (car ll)))))
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546
547(provide 'sort)
548
6b61353c 549;;; arch-tag: fbac12be-2a7b-4c8a-9665-264d61f70bd9
c88ab9ce 550;;; sort.el ends here