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1;;; sort.el --- commands to sort text in an Emacs buffer.
2
f8c25f1b 3;; Copyright (C) 1986, 1987, 1994, 1995 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.
d9ecc911 30
e5167999 31;;; Code:
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33(defvar sort-fold-case nil
34 "*Non-nil if the buffer sort functions should ignore case.")
35
32033024 36;;;###autoload
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37(defun sort-subr (reverse nextrecfun endrecfun &optional startkeyfun endkeyfun)
38 "General text sorting routine to divide buffer into records and sort them.
39Arguments are REVERSE NEXTRECFUN ENDRECFUN &optional STARTKEYFUN ENDKEYFUN.
40
a08caf95 41We divide the accessible portion of the buffer into disjoint pieces
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42called sort records. A portion of each sort record (perhaps all of
43it) is designated as the sort key. The records are rearranged in the
44buffer in order by their sort keys. The records may or may not be
45contiguous.
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46
47Usually the records are rearranged in order of ascending sort key.
48If REVERSE is non-nil, they are rearranged in order of descending sort key.
49
50The next four arguments are functions to be called to move point
51across a sort record. They will be called many times from within sort-subr.
52
53NEXTRECFUN is called with point at the end of the previous record.
54It moves point to the start of the next record.
55It should move point to the end of the buffer if there are no more records.
56The first record is assumed to start at the position of point when sort-subr
57is called.
58
13f4b6b3 59ENDRECFUN is called with point within the record.
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60It should move point to the end of the record.
61
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62STARTKEYFUN moves from the start of the record to the start of the key.
63It may return either a non-nil value to be used as the key, or
a08caf95 64else the key is the substring between the values of point after
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65STARTKEYFUN and ENDKEYFUN are called. If STARTKEYFUN is nil, the key
66starts at the beginning of the record.
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67
68ENDKEYFUN moves from the start of the sort key to the end of the sort key.
69ENDKEYFUN may be nil if STARTKEYFUN returns a value or if it would be the
70same as ENDRECFUN."
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71 ;; Heuristically try to avoid messages if sorting a small amt of text.
72 (let ((messages (> (- (point-max) (point-min)) 50000)))
73 (save-excursion
74 (if messages (message "Finding sort keys..."))
75 (let* ((sort-lists (sort-build-lists nextrecfun endrecfun
76 startkeyfun endkeyfun))
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77 (old (reverse sort-lists))
78 (case-fold-search sort-fold-case))
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79 (if (null sort-lists)
80 ()
81 (or reverse (setq sort-lists (nreverse sort-lists)))
82 (if messages (message "Sorting records..."))
83 (setq sort-lists
84 (if (fboundp 'sortcar)
85 (sortcar sort-lists
86 (cond ((numberp (car (car sort-lists)))
87 ;; This handles both ints and floats.
88 '<)
89 ((consp (car (car sort-lists)))
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90 (function
91 (lambda (a b)
92 (> 0 (compare-buffer-substrings
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93 nil (car a) (cdr a)
94 nil (car b) (cdr b))))))
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95 (t
96 'string<)))
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97 (sort sort-lists
98 (cond ((numberp (car (car sort-lists)))
c71ff001 99 'car-less-than-car)
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100 ((consp (car (car sort-lists)))
101 (function
102 (lambda (a b)
4f1b6c54 103 (> 0 (compare-buffer-substrings
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104 nil (car (car a)) (cdr (car a))
105 nil (car (car b)) (cdr (car b)))))))
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106 (t
107 (function
108 (lambda (a b)
109 (string< (car a) (car b)))))))))
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110 (if reverse (setq sort-lists (nreverse sort-lists)))
111 (if messages (message "Reordering buffer..."))
112 (sort-reorder-buffer sort-lists old)))
113 (if messages (message "Reordering buffer... Done"))))
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114 nil)
115
116;; Parse buffer into records using the arguments as Lisp expressions;
e453d35a 117;; return a list of records. Each record looks like (KEY STARTPOS . ENDPOS)
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118;; where KEY is the sort key (a number or string),
119;; and STARTPOS and ENDPOS are the bounds of this record in the buffer.
120
121;; The records appear in the list lastmost first!
122
123(defun sort-build-lists (nextrecfun endrecfun startkeyfun endkeyfun)
124 (let ((sort-lists ())
125 (start-rec nil)
126 done key)
127 ;; Loop over sort records.
128 ;(goto-char (point-min)) -- it is the caller's responsibility to
129 ;arrange this if necessary
130 (while (not (eobp))
131 (setq start-rec (point)) ;save record start
132 (setq done nil)
133 ;; Get key value, or move to start of key.
134 (setq key (catch 'key
135 (or (and startkeyfun (funcall startkeyfun))
136 ;; If key was not returned as value,
137 ;; move to end of key and get key from the buffer.
138 (let ((start (point)))
139 (funcall (or endkeyfun
140 (prog1 endrecfun (setq done t))))
4f1b6c54 141 (cons start (point))))))
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142 ;; Move to end of this record (start of next one, or end of buffer).
143 (cond ((prog1 done (setq done nil)))
144 (endrecfun (funcall endrecfun))
145 (nextrecfun (funcall nextrecfun) (setq done t)))
146 (if key (setq sort-lists (cons
147 ;; consing optimization in case in which key
148 ;; is same as record.
149 (if (and (consp key)
150 (equal (car key) start-rec)
151 (equal (cdr key) (point)))
152 (cons key key)
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153 (cons key (cons start-rec (point))))
154 sort-lists)))
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155 (and (not done) nextrecfun (funcall nextrecfun)))
156 sort-lists))
157
158(defun sort-reorder-buffer (sort-lists old)
159 (let ((inhibit-quit t)
160 (last (point-min))
161 (min (point-min)) (max (point-max)))
162 ;; Make sure insertions done for reordering
163 ;; do not go after any markers at the end of the sorted region,
164 ;; by inserting a space to separate them.
165 (goto-char (point-max))
166 (insert-before-markers " ")
167 (narrow-to-region min (1- (point-max)))
168 (while sort-lists
169 (goto-char (point-max))
170 (insert-buffer-substring (current-buffer)
171 last
172 (nth 1 (car old)))
173 (goto-char (point-max))
174 (insert-buffer-substring (current-buffer)
175 (nth 1 (car sort-lists))
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176 (cdr (cdr (car sort-lists))))
177 (setq last (cdr (cdr (car old)))
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178 sort-lists (cdr sort-lists)
179 old (cdr old)))
180 (goto-char (point-max))
181 (insert-buffer-substring (current-buffer)
182 last
183 max)
184 ;; Delete the original copy of the text.
185 (delete-region min max)
186 ;; Get rid of the separator " ".
187 (goto-char (point-max))
188 (narrow-to-region min (1+ (point)))
189 (delete-region (point) (1+ (point)))))
190
f9f9507e 191;;;###autoload
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192(defun sort-lines (reverse beg end)
193 "Sort lines in region alphabetically; argument means descending order.
194Called from a program, there are three arguments:
195REVERSE (non-nil means reverse order), BEG and END (region to sort)."
196 (interactive "P\nr")
197 (save-excursion
198 (save-restriction
199 (narrow-to-region beg end)
200 (goto-char (point-min))
201 (sort-subr reverse 'forward-line 'end-of-line))))
202
f9f9507e 203;;;###autoload
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204(defun sort-paragraphs (reverse beg end)
205 "Sort paragraphs in region alphabetically; argument means descending order.
206Called from a program, there are three arguments:
207REVERSE (non-nil means reverse order), BEG and END (region to sort)."
208 (interactive "P\nr")
209 (save-excursion
210 (save-restriction
211 (narrow-to-region beg end)
212 (goto-char (point-min))
213 (sort-subr reverse
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214 (function
215 (lambda ()
216 (while (and (not (eobp)) (looking-at paragraph-separate))
217 (forward-line 1))))
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218 'forward-paragraph))))
219
f9f9507e 220;;;###autoload
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221(defun sort-pages (reverse beg end)
222 "Sort pages in region alphabetically; argument means descending order.
223Called from a program, there are three arguments:
224REVERSE (non-nil means reverse order), BEG and END (region to sort)."
225 (interactive "P\nr")
226 (save-excursion
227 (save-restriction
228 (narrow-to-region beg end)
229 (goto-char (point-min))
230 (sort-subr reverse
231 (function (lambda () (skip-chars-forward "\n")))
232 'forward-page))))
233\f
234(defvar sort-fields-syntax-table nil)
235(if sort-fields-syntax-table nil
236 (let ((table (make-syntax-table))
237 (i 0))
238 (while (< i 256)
239 (modify-syntax-entry i "w" table)
240 (setq i (1+ i)))
241 (modify-syntax-entry ?\ " " table)
242 (modify-syntax-entry ?\t " " table)
243 (modify-syntax-entry ?\n " " table)
244 (modify-syntax-entry ?\. "_" table) ; for floating pt. numbers. -wsr
245 (setq sort-fields-syntax-table table)))
246
f9f9507e 247;;;###autoload
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248(defun sort-numeric-fields (field beg end)
249 "Sort lines in region numerically by the ARGth field of each line.
250Fields are separated by whitespace and numbered from 1 up.
251Specified field must contain a number in each line of the region.
2af3a0e3 252With a negative arg, sorts by the ARGth field counted from the right.
d32200ac 253Called from a program, there are three arguments:
4138e600 254FIELD, BEG and END. BEG and END specify region to sort."
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255 (interactive "p\nr")
256 (sort-fields-1 field beg end
257 (function (lambda ()
220eb88b 258 (sort-skip-fields field)
a4b13e10 259 (string-to-number
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260 (buffer-substring
261 (point)
262 (save-excursion
263 ;; This is just wrong! Even without floats...
264 ;; (skip-chars-forward "[0-9]")
265 (forward-sexp 1)
266 (point))))))
267 nil))
268
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269;;;;;###autoload
270;;(defun sort-float-fields (field beg end)
271;; "Sort lines in region numerically by the ARGth field of each line.
272;;Fields are separated by whitespace and numbered from 1 up. Specified field
273;;must contain a floating point number in each line of the region. With a
274;;negative arg, sorts by the ARGth field counted from the right. Called from a
275;;program, there are three arguments: FIELD, BEG and END. BEG and END specify
276;;region to sort."
277;; (interactive "p\nr")
278;; (sort-fields-1 field beg end
279;; (function (lambda ()
280;; (sort-skip-fields field)
281;; (string-to-number
282;; (buffer-substring
283;; (point)
284;; (save-excursion
285;; (re-search-forward
286;; "[+-]?[0-9]*\.?[0-9]*\\([eE][+-]?[0-9]+\\)?")
287;; (point))))))
288;; nil))
2af3a0e3 289
f9f9507e 290;;;###autoload
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291(defun sort-fields (field beg end)
292 "Sort lines in region lexicographically by the ARGth field of each line.
293Fields are separated by whitespace and numbered from 1 up.
2af3a0e3 294With a negative arg, sorts by the ARGth field counted from the right.
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295Called from a program, there are three arguments:
296FIELD, BEG and END. BEG and END specify region to sort."
297 (interactive "p\nr")
298 (sort-fields-1 field beg end
299 (function (lambda ()
220eb88b 300 (sort-skip-fields field)
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301 nil))
302 (function (lambda () (skip-chars-forward "^ \t\n")))))
303
304(defun sort-fields-1 (field beg end startkeyfun endkeyfun)
2af3a0e3 305 (let ((tbl (syntax-table)))
306 (if (zerop field) (setq field 1))
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307 (unwind-protect
308 (save-excursion
309 (save-restriction
310 (narrow-to-region beg end)
311 (goto-char (point-min))
312 (set-syntax-table sort-fields-syntax-table)
2af3a0e3 313 (sort-subr nil
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314 'forward-line 'end-of-line
315 startkeyfun endkeyfun)))
316 (set-syntax-table tbl))))
317
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318;; Position at the beginning of field N on the current line,
319;; assuming point is initially at the beginning of the line.
d32200ac 320(defun sort-skip-fields (n)
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321 (if (> n 0)
322 ;; Skip across N - 1 fields.
323 (let ((i (1- n)))
324 (while (> i 0)
325 (skip-chars-forward " \t")
326 (skip-chars-forward "^ \t\n")
327 (setq i (1- i)))
328 (skip-chars-forward " \t")
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329 (if (eolp)
330 (error "Line has too few fields: %s"
331 (buffer-substring
332 (save-excursion (beginning-of-line) (point))
333 (save-excursion (end-of-line) (point))))))
334 (end-of-line)
335 ;; Skip back across - N - 1 fields.
336 (let ((i (1- (- n))))
337 (while (> i 0)
338 (skip-chars-backward " \t")
339 (skip-chars-backward "^ \t\n")
340 (setq i (1- i)))
341 (skip-chars-backward " \t"))
342 (if (bolp)
d32200ac 343 (error "Line has too few fields: %s"
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344 (buffer-substring
345 (save-excursion (beginning-of-line) (point))
346 (save-excursion (end-of-line) (point)))))
347 ;; Position at the front of the field
348 ;; even if moving backwards.
349 (skip-chars-backward "^ \t\n")))
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351(defvar sort-regexp-fields-regexp)
352(defvar sort-regexp-record-end)
353
354;; Move to the beginning of the next match for record-regexp,
355;; and set sort-regexp-record-end to the end of that match.
356;; If the next match is empty and does not advance point,
357;; skip one character and try again.
358(defun sort-regexp-fields-next-record ()
359 (let ((oldpos (point)))
360 (and (re-search-forward sort-regexp-fields-regexp nil 'move)
361 (setq sort-regexp-record-end (match-end 0))
362 (if (= sort-regexp-record-end oldpos)
363 (progn
364 (forward-char 1)
365 (re-search-forward sort-regexp-fields-regexp nil 'move)
366 (setq sort-regexp-record-end (match-end 0)))
367 t)
368 (goto-char (match-beginning 0)))))
369
f9f9507e 370;;;###autoload
d32200ac 371(defun sort-regexp-fields (reverse record-regexp key-regexp beg end)
eb8c3be9 372 "Sort the region lexicographically as specified by RECORD-REGEXP and KEY.
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373RECORD-REGEXP specifies the textual units which should be sorted.
374 For example, to sort lines RECORD-REGEXP would be \"^.*$\"
375KEY specifies the part of each record (ie each match for RECORD-REGEXP)
376 is to be used for sorting.
8e5b59e1 377 If it is \"\\\\digit\" then the digit'th \"\\\\(...\\\\)\" match field from
d32200ac 378 RECORD-REGEXP is used.
8e5b59e1 379 If it is \"\\\\&\" then the whole record is used.
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380 Otherwise, it is a regular-expression for which to search within the record.
381If a match for KEY is not found within a record then that record is ignored.
382
383With a negative prefix arg sorts in reverse order.
384
385For example: to sort lines in the region by the first word on each line
386 starting with the letter \"f\",
8e5b59e1 387 RECORD-REGEXP would be \"^.*$\" and KEY would be \"\\\\=\\<f\\\\w*\\\\>\""
2af3a0e3 388 ;; using negative prefix arg to mean "reverse" is now inconsistent with
389 ;; other sort-.*fields functions but then again this was before, since it
390 ;; didn't use the magnitude of the arg to specify anything.
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391 (interactive "P\nsRegexp specifying records to sort:
392sRegexp specifying key within record: \nr")
393 (cond ((or (equal key-regexp "") (equal key-regexp "\\&"))
394 (setq key-regexp 0))
395 ((string-match "\\`\\\\[1-9]\\'" key-regexp)
396 (setq key-regexp (- (aref key-regexp 1) ?0))))
397 (save-excursion
398 (save-restriction
399 (narrow-to-region beg end)
400 (goto-char (point-min))
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401 (let (sort-regexp-record-end
402 (sort-regexp-fields-regexp record-regexp))
403 (re-search-forward sort-regexp-fields-regexp)
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404 (setq sort-regexp-record-end (point))
405 (goto-char (match-beginning 0))
406 (sort-subr reverse
387f3b21 407 'sort-regexp-fields-next-record
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408 (function (lambda ()
409 (goto-char sort-regexp-record-end)))
410 (function (lambda ()
411 (let ((n 0))
412 (cond ((numberp key-regexp)
413 (setq n key-regexp))
414 ((re-search-forward
415 key-regexp sort-regexp-record-end t)
416 (setq n 0))
417 (t (throw 'key nil)))
418 (condition-case ()
419 (if (fboundp 'buffer-substring-lessp)
420 (cons (match-beginning n)
421 (match-end n))
422 (buffer-substring (match-beginning n)
423 (match-end n)))
424 ;; if there was no such register
425 (error (throw 'key nil)))))))))))
426
427\f
428(defvar sort-columns-subprocess t)
429
f9f9507e 430;;;###autoload
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431(defun sort-columns (reverse &optional beg end)
432 "Sort lines in region alphabetically by a certain range of columns.
433For the purpose of this command, the region includes
434the entire line that point is in and the entire line the mark is in.
435The column positions of point and mark bound the range of columns to sort on.
436A prefix argument means sort into reverse order.
437
438Note that `sort-columns' rejects text that contains tabs,
439because tabs could be split across the specified columns
440and it doesn't know how to handle that. Also, when possible,
441it uses the `sort' utility program, which doesn't understand tabs.
442Use \\[untabify] to convert tabs to spaces before sorting."
443 (interactive "P\nr")
444 (save-excursion
445 (let (beg1 end1 col-beg1 col-end1 col-start col-end)
446 (goto-char (min beg end))
447 (setq col-beg1 (current-column))
448 (beginning-of-line)
449 (setq beg1 (point))
450 (goto-char (max beg end))
451 (setq col-end1 (current-column))
452 (forward-line)
453 (setq end1 (point))
454 (setq col-start (min col-beg1 col-end1))
455 (setq col-end (max col-beg1 col-end1))
456 (if (search-backward "\t" beg1 t)
457 (error "sort-columns does not work with tabs. Use M-x untabify."))
458 (if (not (eq system-type 'vax-vms))
459 ;; Use the sort utility if we can; it is 4 times as fast.
460 (call-process-region beg1 end1 "sort" t t nil
461 (if reverse "-rt\n" "-t\n")
462 (concat "+0." col-start)
463 (concat "-0." col-end))
464 ;; On VMS, use Emacs's own facilities.
465 (save-excursion
466 (save-restriction
467 (narrow-to-region beg1 end1)
468 (goto-char beg1)
469 (sort-subr reverse 'forward-line 'end-of-line
470 (function (lambda () (move-to-column col-start) nil))
471 (function (lambda () (move-to-column col-end) nil)))))))))
2af3a0e3 472
f9f9507e 473;;;###autoload
2af3a0e3 474(defun reverse-region (beg end)
475 "Reverse the order of lines in a region.
476From a program takes two point or marker arguments, BEG and END."
477 (interactive "r")
478 (if (> beg end)
479 (let (mid) (setq mid end end beg beg mid)))
480 (save-excursion
481 ;; put beg at the start of a line and end and the end of one --
482 ;; the largest possible region which fits this criteria
483 (goto-char beg)
484 (or (bolp) (forward-line 1))
485 (setq beg (point))
486 (goto-char end)
487 ;; the test for bolp is for those times when end is on an empty line;
488 ;; it is probably not the case that the line should be included in the
489 ;; reversal; it isn't difficult to add it afterward.
490 (or (and (eolp) (not (bolp))) (progn (forward-line -1) (end-of-line)))
491 (setq end (point-marker))
492 ;; the real work. this thing cranks through memory on large regions.
493 (let (ll (do t))
494 (while do
495 (goto-char beg)
496 (setq ll (cons (buffer-substring (point) (progn (end-of-line) (point)))
497 ll))
498 (setq do (/= (point) end))
499 (delete-region beg (if do (1+ (point)) (point))))
500 (while (cdr ll)
501 (insert (car ll) "\n")
502 (setq ll (cdr ll)))
503 (insert (car ll)))))
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504
505(provide 'sort)
506
c88ab9ce 507;;; sort.el ends here