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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.
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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 &optional startkeyfun endkeyfun)
44 "General text sorting routine to divide buffer into records and sort them.
45Arguments are REVERSE NEXTRECFUN ENDRECFUN &optional STARTKEYFUN ENDKEYFUN.
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
78same as ENDRECFUN."
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79 ;; Heuristically try to avoid messages if sorting a small amt of text.
80 (let ((messages (> (- (point-max) (point-min)) 50000)))
81 (save-excursion
82 (if messages (message "Finding sort keys..."))
83 (let* ((sort-lists (sort-build-lists nextrecfun endrecfun
84 startkeyfun endkeyfun))
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85 (old (reverse sort-lists))
86 (case-fold-search sort-fold-case))
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87 (if (null sort-lists)
88 ()
89 (or reverse (setq sort-lists (nreverse sort-lists)))
90 (if messages (message "Sorting records..."))
91 (setq sort-lists
92 (if (fboundp 'sortcar)
93 (sortcar sort-lists
94 (cond ((numberp (car (car sort-lists)))
95 ;; This handles both ints and floats.
96 '<)
97 ((consp (car (car sort-lists)))
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98 (function
99 (lambda (a b)
100 (> 0 (compare-buffer-substrings
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101 nil (car a) (cdr a)
102 nil (car b) (cdr b))))))
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103 (t
104 'string<)))
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105 (sort sort-lists
106 (cond ((numberp (car (car sort-lists)))
c71ff001 107 'car-less-than-car)
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108 ((consp (car (car sort-lists)))
109 (function
110 (lambda (a b)
4f1b6c54 111 (> 0 (compare-buffer-substrings
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112 nil (car (car a)) (cdr (car a))
113 nil (car (car b)) (cdr (car b)))))))
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114 (t
115 (function
116 (lambda (a b)
117 (string< (car a) (car b)))))))))
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118 (if reverse (setq sort-lists (nreverse sort-lists)))
119 (if messages (message "Reordering buffer..."))
120 (sort-reorder-buffer sort-lists old)))
121 (if messages (message "Reordering buffer... Done"))))
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122 nil)
123
124;; Parse buffer into records using the arguments as Lisp expressions;
e453d35a 125;; return a list of records. Each record looks like (KEY STARTPOS . ENDPOS)
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126;; where KEY is the sort key (a number or string),
127;; and STARTPOS and ENDPOS are the bounds of this record in the buffer.
128
129;; The records appear in the list lastmost first!
130
131(defun sort-build-lists (nextrecfun endrecfun startkeyfun endkeyfun)
132 (let ((sort-lists ())
133 (start-rec nil)
134 done key)
135 ;; Loop over sort records.
136 ;(goto-char (point-min)) -- it is the caller's responsibility to
137 ;arrange this if necessary
138 (while (not (eobp))
139 (setq start-rec (point)) ;save record start
140 (setq done nil)
141 ;; Get key value, or move to start of key.
142 (setq key (catch 'key
143 (or (and startkeyfun (funcall startkeyfun))
144 ;; If key was not returned as value,
145 ;; move to end of key and get key from the buffer.
146 (let ((start (point)))
147 (funcall (or endkeyfun
148 (prog1 endrecfun (setq done t))))
4f1b6c54 149 (cons start (point))))))
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150 ;; Move to end of this record (start of next one, or end of buffer).
151 (cond ((prog1 done (setq done nil)))
152 (endrecfun (funcall endrecfun))
153 (nextrecfun (funcall nextrecfun) (setq done t)))
154 (if key (setq sort-lists (cons
155 ;; consing optimization in case in which key
156 ;; is same as record.
157 (if (and (consp key)
158 (equal (car key) start-rec)
159 (equal (cdr key) (point)))
160 (cons key key)
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161 (cons key (cons start-rec (point))))
162 sort-lists)))
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163 (and (not done) nextrecfun (funcall nextrecfun)))
164 sort-lists))
165
166(defun sort-reorder-buffer (sort-lists old)
167 (let ((inhibit-quit t)
168 (last (point-min))
169 (min (point-min)) (max (point-max)))
170 ;; Make sure insertions done for reordering
171 ;; do not go after any markers at the end of the sorted region,
172 ;; by inserting a space to separate them.
173 (goto-char (point-max))
174 (insert-before-markers " ")
175 (narrow-to-region min (1- (point-max)))
176 (while sort-lists
177 (goto-char (point-max))
178 (insert-buffer-substring (current-buffer)
179 last
180 (nth 1 (car old)))
181 (goto-char (point-max))
182 (insert-buffer-substring (current-buffer)
183 (nth 1 (car sort-lists))
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184 (cdr (cdr (car sort-lists))))
185 (setq last (cdr (cdr (car old)))
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186 sort-lists (cdr sort-lists)
187 old (cdr old)))
188 (goto-char (point-max))
189 (insert-buffer-substring (current-buffer)
190 last
191 max)
192 ;; Delete the original copy of the text.
193 (delete-region min max)
194 ;; Get rid of the separator " ".
195 (goto-char (point-max))
196 (narrow-to-region min (1+ (point)))
197 (delete-region (point) (1+ (point)))))
198
f9f9507e 199;;;###autoload
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200(defun sort-lines (reverse beg end)
201 "Sort lines in region alphabetically; argument means descending order.
202Called from a program, there are three arguments:
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203REVERSE (non-nil means reverse order), BEG and END (region to sort).
204The variable `sort-fold-case' determines whether alphabetic case affects
205the sort order."
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206 (interactive "P\nr")
207 (save-excursion
208 (save-restriction
209 (narrow-to-region beg end)
210 (goto-char (point-min))
211 (sort-subr reverse 'forward-line 'end-of-line))))
212
f9f9507e 213;;;###autoload
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214(defun sort-paragraphs (reverse beg end)
215 "Sort paragraphs in region alphabetically; argument means descending order.
216Called from a program, there are three arguments:
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217REVERSE (non-nil means reverse order), BEG and END (region to sort).
218The variable `sort-fold-case' determines whether alphabetic case affects
219the sort order."
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220 (interactive "P\nr")
221 (save-excursion
222 (save-restriction
223 (narrow-to-region beg end)
224 (goto-char (point-min))
225 (sort-subr reverse
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226 (function
227 (lambda ()
228 (while (and (not (eobp)) (looking-at paragraph-separate))
229 (forward-line 1))))
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230 'forward-paragraph))))
231
f9f9507e 232;;;###autoload
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233(defun sort-pages (reverse beg end)
234 "Sort pages in region alphabetically; argument means descending order.
235Called from a program, there are three arguments:
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236REVERSE (non-nil means reverse order), BEG and END (region to sort).
237The variable `sort-fold-case' determines whether alphabetic case affects
238the sort order."
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239 (interactive "P\nr")
240 (save-excursion
241 (save-restriction
242 (narrow-to-region beg end)
243 (goto-char (point-min))
244 (sort-subr reverse
245 (function (lambda () (skip-chars-forward "\n")))
246 'forward-page))))
247\f
248(defvar sort-fields-syntax-table nil)
249(if sort-fields-syntax-table nil
250 (let ((table (make-syntax-table))
251 (i 0))
252 (while (< i 256)
253 (modify-syntax-entry i "w" table)
254 (setq i (1+ i)))
255 (modify-syntax-entry ?\ " " table)
256 (modify-syntax-entry ?\t " " table)
257 (modify-syntax-entry ?\n " " table)
258 (modify-syntax-entry ?\. "_" table) ; for floating pt. numbers. -wsr
259 (setq sort-fields-syntax-table table)))
260
f9f9507e 261;;;###autoload
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262(defun sort-numeric-fields (field beg end)
263 "Sort lines in region numerically by the ARGth field of each line.
264Fields are separated by whitespace and numbered from 1 up.
265Specified field must contain a number in each line of the region.
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
271 (function (lambda ()
220eb88b 272 (sort-skip-fields field)
a4b13e10 273 (string-to-number
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274 (buffer-substring
275 (point)
276 (save-excursion
277 ;; This is just wrong! Even without floats...
278 ;; (skip-chars-forward "[0-9]")
279 (forward-sexp 1)
280 (point))))))
281 nil))
282
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283;;;;;###autoload
284;;(defun sort-float-fields (field beg end)
285;; "Sort lines in region numerically by the ARGth field of each line.
286;;Fields are separated by whitespace and numbered from 1 up. Specified field
287;;must contain a floating point number in each line of the region. With a
288;;negative arg, sorts by the ARGth field counted from the right. Called from a
289;;program, there are three arguments: FIELD, BEG and END. BEG and END specify
290;;region to sort."
291;; (interactive "p\nr")
292;; (sort-fields-1 field beg end
293;; (function (lambda ()
294;; (sort-skip-fields field)
295;; (string-to-number
296;; (buffer-substring
297;; (point)
298;; (save-excursion
299;; (re-search-forward
300;; "[+-]?[0-9]*\.?[0-9]*\\([eE][+-]?[0-9]+\\)?")
301;; (point))))))
302;; nil))
2af3a0e3 303
f9f9507e 304;;;###autoload
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305(defun sort-fields (field beg end)
306 "Sort lines in region lexicographically by the ARGth field of each line.
307Fields are separated by whitespace and numbered from 1 up.
2af3a0e3 308With a negative arg, sorts by the ARGth field counted from the right.
d32200ac 309Called from a program, there are three arguments:
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310FIELD, BEG and END. BEG and END specify region to sort.
311The variable `sort-fold-case' determines whether alphabetic case affects
312the sort order."
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313 (interactive "p\nr")
314 (sort-fields-1 field beg end
315 (function (lambda ()
220eb88b 316 (sort-skip-fields field)
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317 nil))
318 (function (lambda () (skip-chars-forward "^ \t\n")))))
319
320(defun sort-fields-1 (field beg end startkeyfun endkeyfun)
2af3a0e3 321 (let ((tbl (syntax-table)))
322 (if (zerop field) (setq field 1))
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323 (unwind-protect
324 (save-excursion
325 (save-restriction
326 (narrow-to-region beg end)
327 (goto-char (point-min))
328 (set-syntax-table sort-fields-syntax-table)
2af3a0e3 329 (sort-subr nil
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330 'forward-line 'end-of-line
331 startkeyfun endkeyfun)))
332 (set-syntax-table tbl))))
333
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334;; Position at the beginning of field N on the current line,
335;; assuming point is initially at the beginning of the line.
d32200ac 336(defun sort-skip-fields (n)
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337 (if (> n 0)
338 ;; Skip across N - 1 fields.
339 (let ((i (1- n)))
340 (while (> i 0)
341 (skip-chars-forward " \t")
342 (skip-chars-forward "^ \t\n")
343 (setq i (1- i)))
344 (skip-chars-forward " \t")
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345 (if (eolp)
346 (error "Line has too few fields: %s"
347 (buffer-substring
348 (save-excursion (beginning-of-line) (point))
349 (save-excursion (end-of-line) (point))))))
350 (end-of-line)
351 ;; Skip back across - N - 1 fields.
352 (let ((i (1- (- n))))
353 (while (> i 0)
354 (skip-chars-backward " \t")
355 (skip-chars-backward "^ \t\n")
356 (setq i (1- i)))
357 (skip-chars-backward " \t"))
358 (if (bolp)
d32200ac 359 (error "Line has too few fields: %s"
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360 (buffer-substring
361 (save-excursion (beginning-of-line) (point))
362 (save-excursion (end-of-line) (point)))))
363 ;; Position at the front of the field
364 ;; even if moving backwards.
365 (skip-chars-backward "^ \t\n")))
d32200ac 366\f
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367(defvar sort-regexp-fields-regexp)
368(defvar sort-regexp-record-end)
369
370;; Move to the beginning of the next match for record-regexp,
371;; and set sort-regexp-record-end to the end of that match.
372;; If the next match is empty and does not advance point,
373;; skip one character and try again.
374(defun sort-regexp-fields-next-record ()
375 (let ((oldpos (point)))
376 (and (re-search-forward sort-regexp-fields-regexp nil 'move)
377 (setq sort-regexp-record-end (match-end 0))
378 (if (= sort-regexp-record-end oldpos)
379 (progn
380 (forward-char 1)
381 (re-search-forward sort-regexp-fields-regexp nil 'move)
382 (setq sort-regexp-record-end (match-end 0)))
383 t)
384 (goto-char (match-beginning 0)))))
385
f9f9507e 386;;;###autoload
d32200ac 387(defun sort-regexp-fields (reverse record-regexp key-regexp beg end)
eb8c3be9 388 "Sort the region lexicographically as specified by RECORD-REGEXP and KEY.
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389RECORD-REGEXP specifies the textual units which should be sorted.
390 For example, to sort lines RECORD-REGEXP would be \"^.*$\"
391KEY specifies the part of each record (ie each match for RECORD-REGEXP)
392 is to be used for sorting.
8e5b59e1 393 If it is \"\\\\digit\" then the digit'th \"\\\\(...\\\\)\" match field from
d32200ac 394 RECORD-REGEXP is used.
8e5b59e1 395 If it is \"\\\\&\" then the whole record is used.
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396 Otherwise, it is a regular-expression for which to search within the record.
397If a match for KEY is not found within a record then that record is ignored.
398
399With a negative prefix arg sorts in reverse order.
400
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401The variable `sort-fold-case' determines whether alphabetic case affects
402the sort order.
403
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404For example: to sort lines in the region by the first word on each line
405 starting with the letter \"f\",
8e5b59e1 406 RECORD-REGEXP would be \"^.*$\" and KEY would be \"\\\\=\\<f\\\\w*\\\\>\""
2af3a0e3 407 ;; using negative prefix arg to mean "reverse" is now inconsistent with
408 ;; other sort-.*fields functions but then again this was before, since it
409 ;; didn't use the magnitude of the arg to specify anything.
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410 (interactive "P\nsRegexp specifying records to sort:
411sRegexp specifying key within record: \nr")
412 (cond ((or (equal key-regexp "") (equal key-regexp "\\&"))
413 (setq key-regexp 0))
414 ((string-match "\\`\\\\[1-9]\\'" key-regexp)
415 (setq key-regexp (- (aref key-regexp 1) ?0))))
416 (save-excursion
417 (save-restriction
418 (narrow-to-region beg end)
419 (goto-char (point-min))
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420 (let (sort-regexp-record-end
421 (sort-regexp-fields-regexp record-regexp))
422 (re-search-forward sort-regexp-fields-regexp)
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423 (setq sort-regexp-record-end (point))
424 (goto-char (match-beginning 0))
425 (sort-subr reverse
387f3b21 426 'sort-regexp-fields-next-record
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427 (function (lambda ()
428 (goto-char sort-regexp-record-end)))
429 (function (lambda ()
430 (let ((n 0))
431 (cond ((numberp key-regexp)
432 (setq n key-regexp))
433 ((re-search-forward
434 key-regexp sort-regexp-record-end t)
435 (setq n 0))
436 (t (throw 'key nil)))
437 (condition-case ()
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438 (cons (match-beginning n)
439 (match-end n))
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440 ;; if there was no such register
441 (error (throw 'key nil)))))))))))
442
443\f
444(defvar sort-columns-subprocess t)
445
f9f9507e 446;;;###autoload
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447(defun sort-columns (reverse &optional beg end)
448 "Sort lines in region alphabetically by a certain range of columns.
449For the purpose of this command, the region includes
450the entire line that point is in and the entire line the mark is in.
451The column positions of point and mark bound the range of columns to sort on.
452A prefix argument means sort into reverse order.
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453The variable `sort-fold-case' determines whether alphabetic case affects
454the sort order.
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455
456Note that `sort-columns' rejects text that contains tabs,
457because tabs could be split across the specified columns
458and it doesn't know how to handle that. Also, when possible,
459it uses the `sort' utility program, which doesn't understand tabs.
460Use \\[untabify] to convert tabs to spaces before sorting."
461 (interactive "P\nr")
462 (save-excursion
463 (let (beg1 end1 col-beg1 col-end1 col-start col-end)
464 (goto-char (min beg end))
465 (setq col-beg1 (current-column))
466 (beginning-of-line)
467 (setq beg1 (point))
468 (goto-char (max beg end))
469 (setq col-end1 (current-column))
470 (forward-line)
471 (setq end1 (point))
472 (setq col-start (min col-beg1 col-end1))
473 (setq col-end (max col-beg1 col-end1))
474 (if (search-backward "\t" beg1 t)
475 (error "sort-columns does not work with tabs. Use M-x untabify."))
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476 (if (not (or (eq system-type 'vax-vms)
477 (text-properties-at beg1)
478 (< (next-property-change beg1 nil end1) end1)))
d32200ac 479 ;; Use the sort utility if we can; it is 4 times as fast.
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480 ;; Do not use it if there are any properties in the region,
481 ;; since the sort utility would lose the properties.
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482 (call-process-region beg1 end1 "sort" t t nil
483 (if reverse "-rt\n" "-t\n")
484 (concat "+0." col-start)
485 (concat "-0." col-end))
486 ;; On VMS, use Emacs's own facilities.
487 (save-excursion
488 (save-restriction
489 (narrow-to-region beg1 end1)
490 (goto-char beg1)
491 (sort-subr reverse 'forward-line 'end-of-line
492 (function (lambda () (move-to-column col-start) nil))
493 (function (lambda () (move-to-column col-end) nil)))))))))
2af3a0e3 494
f9f9507e 495;;;###autoload
2af3a0e3 496(defun reverse-region (beg end)
497 "Reverse the order of lines in a region.
498From a program takes two point or marker arguments, BEG and END."
499 (interactive "r")
500 (if (> beg end)
501 (let (mid) (setq mid end end beg beg mid)))
502 (save-excursion
503 ;; put beg at the start of a line and end and the end of one --
504 ;; the largest possible region which fits this criteria
505 (goto-char beg)
506 (or (bolp) (forward-line 1))
507 (setq beg (point))
508 (goto-char end)
509 ;; the test for bolp is for those times when end is on an empty line;
510 ;; it is probably not the case that the line should be included in the
511 ;; reversal; it isn't difficult to add it afterward.
512 (or (and (eolp) (not (bolp))) (progn (forward-line -1) (end-of-line)))
513 (setq end (point-marker))
514 ;; the real work. this thing cranks through memory on large regions.
515 (let (ll (do t))
516 (while do
517 (goto-char beg)
518 (setq ll (cons (buffer-substring (point) (progn (end-of-line) (point)))
519 ll))
520 (setq do (/= (point) end))
521 (delete-region beg (if do (1+ (point)) (point))))
522 (while (cdr ll)
523 (insert (car ll) "\n")
524 (setq ll (cdr ll)))
525 (insert (car ll)))))
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526
527(provide 'sort)
528
c88ab9ce 529;;; sort.el ends here