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1;;; sort.el --- commands to sort text in an Emacs buffer.
2
8f1204db 3;; Copyright (C) 1986, 1987, 1994 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
22;; along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to
23;; the Free Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
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25;;; Commentary:
26
27;;; This package provides the sorting facilities documented in the Emacs
28;;; user's manual.
29
e5167999 30;;; Code:
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32(defvar sort-fold-case nil
33 "*Non-nil if the buffer sort functions should ignore case.")
34
32033024 35;;;###autoload
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36(defun sort-subr (reverse nextrecfun endrecfun &optional startkeyfun endkeyfun)
37 "General text sorting routine to divide buffer into records and sort them.
38Arguments are REVERSE NEXTRECFUN ENDRECFUN &optional STARTKEYFUN ENDKEYFUN.
39
a08caf95 40We divide the accessible portion of the buffer into disjoint pieces
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41called sort records. A portion of each sort record (perhaps all of
42it) is designated as the sort key. The records are rearranged in the
43buffer in order by their sort keys. The records may or may not be
44contiguous.
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45
46Usually the records are rearranged in order of ascending sort key.
47If REVERSE is non-nil, they are rearranged in order of descending sort key.
48
49The next four arguments are functions to be called to move point
50across a sort record. They will be called many times from within sort-subr.
51
52NEXTRECFUN is called with point at the end of the previous record.
53It moves point to the start of the next record.
54It should move point to the end of the buffer if there are no more records.
55The first record is assumed to start at the position of point when sort-subr
56is called.
57
13f4b6b3 58ENDRECFUN is called with point within the record.
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59It should move point to the end of the record.
60
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61STARTKEYFUN moves from the start of the record to the start of the key.
62It may return either a non-nil value to be used as the key, or
a08caf95 63else the key is the substring between the values of point after
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64STARTKEYFUN and ENDKEYFUN are called. If STARTKEYFUN is nil, the key
65starts at the beginning of the record.
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66
67ENDKEYFUN moves from the start of the sort key to the end of the sort key.
68ENDKEYFUN may be nil if STARTKEYFUN returns a value or if it would be the
69same as ENDRECFUN."
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70 ;; Heuristically try to avoid messages if sorting a small amt of text.
71 (let ((messages (> (- (point-max) (point-min)) 50000)))
72 (save-excursion
73 (if messages (message "Finding sort keys..."))
74 (let* ((sort-lists (sort-build-lists nextrecfun endrecfun
75 startkeyfun endkeyfun))
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76 (old (reverse sort-lists))
77 (case-fold-search sort-fold-case))
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78 (if (null sort-lists)
79 ()
80 (or reverse (setq sort-lists (nreverse sort-lists)))
81 (if messages (message "Sorting records..."))
82 (setq sort-lists
83 (if (fboundp 'sortcar)
84 (sortcar sort-lists
85 (cond ((numberp (car (car sort-lists)))
86 ;; This handles both ints and floats.
87 '<)
88 ((consp (car (car sort-lists)))
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89 (function
90 (lambda (a b)
91 (> 0 (compare-buffer-substrings
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92 nil (car a) (cdr a)
93 nil (car b) (cdr b))))))
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94 (t
95 'string<)))
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96 (sort sort-lists
97 (cond ((numberp (car (car sort-lists)))
c71ff001 98 'car-less-than-car)
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99 ((consp (car (car sort-lists)))
100 (function
101 (lambda (a b)
4f1b6c54 102 (> 0 (compare-buffer-substrings
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103 nil (car (car a)) (cdr (car a))
104 nil (car (car b)) (cdr (car b)))))))
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105 (t
106 (function
107 (lambda (a b)
108 (string< (car a) (car b)))))))))
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109 (if reverse (setq sort-lists (nreverse sort-lists)))
110 (if messages (message "Reordering buffer..."))
111 (sort-reorder-buffer sort-lists old)))
112 (if messages (message "Reordering buffer... Done"))))
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113 nil)
114
115;; Parse buffer into records using the arguments as Lisp expressions;
e453d35a 116;; return a list of records. Each record looks like (KEY STARTPOS . ENDPOS)
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117;; where KEY is the sort key (a number or string),
118;; and STARTPOS and ENDPOS are the bounds of this record in the buffer.
119
120;; The records appear in the list lastmost first!
121
122(defun sort-build-lists (nextrecfun endrecfun startkeyfun endkeyfun)
123 (let ((sort-lists ())
124 (start-rec nil)
125 done key)
126 ;; Loop over sort records.
127 ;(goto-char (point-min)) -- it is the caller's responsibility to
128 ;arrange this if necessary
129 (while (not (eobp))
130 (setq start-rec (point)) ;save record start
131 (setq done nil)
132 ;; Get key value, or move to start of key.
133 (setq key (catch 'key
134 (or (and startkeyfun (funcall startkeyfun))
135 ;; If key was not returned as value,
136 ;; move to end of key and get key from the buffer.
137 (let ((start (point)))
138 (funcall (or endkeyfun
139 (prog1 endrecfun (setq done t))))
4f1b6c54 140 (cons start (point))))))
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141 ;; Move to end of this record (start of next one, or end of buffer).
142 (cond ((prog1 done (setq done nil)))
143 (endrecfun (funcall endrecfun))
144 (nextrecfun (funcall nextrecfun) (setq done t)))
145 (if key (setq sort-lists (cons
146 ;; consing optimization in case in which key
147 ;; is same as record.
148 (if (and (consp key)
149 (equal (car key) start-rec)
150 (equal (cdr key) (point)))
151 (cons key key)
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152 (cons key (cons start-rec (point))))
153 sort-lists)))
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154 (and (not done) nextrecfun (funcall nextrecfun)))
155 sort-lists))
156
157(defun sort-reorder-buffer (sort-lists old)
158 (let ((inhibit-quit t)
159 (last (point-min))
160 (min (point-min)) (max (point-max)))
161 ;; Make sure insertions done for reordering
162 ;; do not go after any markers at the end of the sorted region,
163 ;; by inserting a space to separate them.
164 (goto-char (point-max))
165 (insert-before-markers " ")
166 (narrow-to-region min (1- (point-max)))
167 (while sort-lists
168 (goto-char (point-max))
169 (insert-buffer-substring (current-buffer)
170 last
171 (nth 1 (car old)))
172 (goto-char (point-max))
173 (insert-buffer-substring (current-buffer)
174 (nth 1 (car sort-lists))
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175 (cdr (cdr (car sort-lists))))
176 (setq last (cdr (cdr (car old)))
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177 sort-lists (cdr sort-lists)
178 old (cdr old)))
179 (goto-char (point-max))
180 (insert-buffer-substring (current-buffer)
181 last
182 max)
183 ;; Delete the original copy of the text.
184 (delete-region min max)
185 ;; Get rid of the separator " ".
186 (goto-char (point-max))
187 (narrow-to-region min (1+ (point)))
188 (delete-region (point) (1+ (point)))))
189
f9f9507e 190;;;###autoload
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191(defun sort-lines (reverse beg end)
192 "Sort lines in region alphabetically; argument means descending order.
193Called from a program, there are three arguments:
194REVERSE (non-nil means reverse order), BEG and END (region to sort)."
195 (interactive "P\nr")
196 (save-excursion
197 (save-restriction
198 (narrow-to-region beg end)
199 (goto-char (point-min))
200 (sort-subr reverse 'forward-line 'end-of-line))))
201
f9f9507e 202;;;###autoload
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203(defun sort-paragraphs (reverse beg end)
204 "Sort paragraphs in region alphabetically; argument means descending order.
205Called from a program, there are three arguments:
206REVERSE (non-nil means reverse order), BEG and END (region to sort)."
207 (interactive "P\nr")
208 (save-excursion
209 (save-restriction
210 (narrow-to-region beg end)
211 (goto-char (point-min))
212 (sort-subr reverse
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213 (function
214 (lambda ()
215 (while (and (not (eobp)) (looking-at paragraph-separate))
216 (forward-line 1))))
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217 'forward-paragraph))))
218
f9f9507e 219;;;###autoload
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220(defun sort-pages (reverse beg end)
221 "Sort pages in region alphabetically; argument means descending order.
222Called from a program, there are three arguments:
223REVERSE (non-nil means reverse order), BEG and END (region to sort)."
224 (interactive "P\nr")
225 (save-excursion
226 (save-restriction
227 (narrow-to-region beg end)
228 (goto-char (point-min))
229 (sort-subr reverse
230 (function (lambda () (skip-chars-forward "\n")))
231 'forward-page))))
232\f
233(defvar sort-fields-syntax-table nil)
234(if sort-fields-syntax-table nil
235 (let ((table (make-syntax-table))
236 (i 0))
237 (while (< i 256)
238 (modify-syntax-entry i "w" table)
239 (setq i (1+ i)))
240 (modify-syntax-entry ?\ " " table)
241 (modify-syntax-entry ?\t " " table)
242 (modify-syntax-entry ?\n " " table)
243 (modify-syntax-entry ?\. "_" table) ; for floating pt. numbers. -wsr
244 (setq sort-fields-syntax-table table)))
245
f9f9507e 246;;;###autoload
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247(defun sort-numeric-fields (field beg end)
248 "Sort lines in region numerically by the ARGth field of each line.
249Fields are separated by whitespace and numbered from 1 up.
250Specified field must contain a number in each line of the region.
2af3a0e3 251With a negative arg, sorts by the ARGth field counted from the right.
d32200ac 252Called from a program, there are three arguments:
4138e600 253FIELD, BEG and END. BEG and END specify region to sort."
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254 (interactive "p\nr")
255 (sort-fields-1 field beg end
256 (function (lambda ()
220eb88b 257 (sort-skip-fields field)
a4b13e10 258 (string-to-number
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259 (buffer-substring
260 (point)
261 (save-excursion
262 ;; This is just wrong! Even without floats...
263 ;; (skip-chars-forward "[0-9]")
264 (forward-sexp 1)
265 (point))))))
266 nil))
267
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268;;;;;###autoload
269;;(defun sort-float-fields (field beg end)
270;; "Sort lines in region numerically by the ARGth field of each line.
271;;Fields are separated by whitespace and numbered from 1 up. Specified field
272;;must contain a floating point number in each line of the region. With a
273;;negative arg, sorts by the ARGth field counted from the right. Called from a
274;;program, there are three arguments: FIELD, BEG and END. BEG and END specify
275;;region to sort."
276;; (interactive "p\nr")
277;; (sort-fields-1 field beg end
278;; (function (lambda ()
279;; (sort-skip-fields field)
280;; (string-to-number
281;; (buffer-substring
282;; (point)
283;; (save-excursion
284;; (re-search-forward
285;; "[+-]?[0-9]*\.?[0-9]*\\([eE][+-]?[0-9]+\\)?")
286;; (point))))))
287;; nil))
2af3a0e3 288
f9f9507e 289;;;###autoload
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290(defun sort-fields (field beg end)
291 "Sort lines in region lexicographically by the ARGth field of each line.
292Fields are separated by whitespace and numbered from 1 up.
2af3a0e3 293With a negative arg, sorts by the ARGth field counted from the right.
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294Called from a program, there are three arguments:
295FIELD, BEG and END. BEG and END specify region to sort."
296 (interactive "p\nr")
297 (sort-fields-1 field beg end
298 (function (lambda ()
220eb88b 299 (sort-skip-fields field)
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300 nil))
301 (function (lambda () (skip-chars-forward "^ \t\n")))))
302
303(defun sort-fields-1 (field beg end startkeyfun endkeyfun)
2af3a0e3 304 (let ((tbl (syntax-table)))
305 (if (zerop field) (setq field 1))
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306 (unwind-protect
307 (save-excursion
308 (save-restriction
309 (narrow-to-region beg end)
310 (goto-char (point-min))
311 (set-syntax-table sort-fields-syntax-table)
2af3a0e3 312 (sort-subr nil
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313 'forward-line 'end-of-line
314 startkeyfun endkeyfun)))
315 (set-syntax-table tbl))))
316
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317;; Position at the beginning of field N on the current line,
318;; assuming point is initially at the beginning of the line.
d32200ac 319(defun sort-skip-fields (n)
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320 (if (> n 0)
321 ;; Skip across N - 1 fields.
322 (let ((i (1- n)))
323 (while (> i 0)
324 (skip-chars-forward " \t")
325 (skip-chars-forward "^ \t\n")
326 (setq i (1- i)))
327 (skip-chars-forward " \t")
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328 (if (eolp)
329 (error "Line has too few fields: %s"
330 (buffer-substring
331 (save-excursion (beginning-of-line) (point))
332 (save-excursion (end-of-line) (point))))))
333 (end-of-line)
334 ;; Skip back across - N - 1 fields.
335 (let ((i (1- (- n))))
336 (while (> i 0)
337 (skip-chars-backward " \t")
338 (skip-chars-backward "^ \t\n")
339 (setq i (1- i)))
340 (skip-chars-backward " \t"))
341 (if (bolp)
d32200ac 342 (error "Line has too few fields: %s"
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343 (buffer-substring
344 (save-excursion (beginning-of-line) (point))
345 (save-excursion (end-of-line) (point)))))
346 ;; Position at the front of the field
347 ;; even if moving backwards.
348 (skip-chars-backward "^ \t\n")))
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f9f9507e 350;;;###autoload
d32200ac 351(defun sort-regexp-fields (reverse record-regexp key-regexp beg end)
eb8c3be9 352 "Sort the region lexicographically as specified by RECORD-REGEXP and KEY.
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353RECORD-REGEXP specifies the textual units which should be sorted.
354 For example, to sort lines RECORD-REGEXP would be \"^.*$\"
355KEY specifies the part of each record (ie each match for RECORD-REGEXP)
356 is to be used for sorting.
357 If it is \"\\digit\" then the digit'th \"\\(...\\)\" match field from
358 RECORD-REGEXP is used.
359 If it is \"\\&\" then the whole record is used.
360 Otherwise, it is a regular-expression for which to search within the record.
361If a match for KEY is not found within a record then that record is ignored.
362
363With a negative prefix arg sorts in reverse order.
364
365For example: to sort lines in the region by the first word on each line
366 starting with the letter \"f\",
367 RECORD-REGEXP would be \"^.*$\" and KEY would be \"\\=\\<f\\w*\\>\""
2af3a0e3 368 ;; using negative prefix arg to mean "reverse" is now inconsistent with
369 ;; other sort-.*fields functions but then again this was before, since it
370 ;; didn't use the magnitude of the arg to specify anything.
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371 (interactive "P\nsRegexp specifying records to sort:
372sRegexp specifying key within record: \nr")
373 (cond ((or (equal key-regexp "") (equal key-regexp "\\&"))
374 (setq key-regexp 0))
375 ((string-match "\\`\\\\[1-9]\\'" key-regexp)
376 (setq key-regexp (- (aref key-regexp 1) ?0))))
377 (save-excursion
378 (save-restriction
379 (narrow-to-region beg end)
380 (goto-char (point-min))
381 (let (sort-regexp-record-end) ;isn't dynamic scoping wonderful?
382 (re-search-forward record-regexp)
383 (setq sort-regexp-record-end (point))
384 (goto-char (match-beginning 0))
385 (sort-subr reverse
386 (function (lambda ()
387 (and (re-search-forward record-regexp nil 'move)
388 (setq sort-regexp-record-end (match-end 0))
389 (goto-char (match-beginning 0)))))
390 (function (lambda ()
391 (goto-char sort-regexp-record-end)))
392 (function (lambda ()
393 (let ((n 0))
394 (cond ((numberp key-regexp)
395 (setq n key-regexp))
396 ((re-search-forward
397 key-regexp sort-regexp-record-end t)
398 (setq n 0))
399 (t (throw 'key nil)))
400 (condition-case ()
401 (if (fboundp 'buffer-substring-lessp)
402 (cons (match-beginning n)
403 (match-end n))
404 (buffer-substring (match-beginning n)
405 (match-end n)))
406 ;; if there was no such register
407 (error (throw 'key nil)))))))))))
408
409\f
410(defvar sort-columns-subprocess t)
411
f9f9507e 412;;;###autoload
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413(defun sort-columns (reverse &optional beg end)
414 "Sort lines in region alphabetically by a certain range of columns.
415For the purpose of this command, the region includes
416the entire line that point is in and the entire line the mark is in.
417The column positions of point and mark bound the range of columns to sort on.
418A prefix argument means sort into reverse order.
419
420Note that `sort-columns' rejects text that contains tabs,
421because tabs could be split across the specified columns
422and it doesn't know how to handle that. Also, when possible,
423it uses the `sort' utility program, which doesn't understand tabs.
424Use \\[untabify] to convert tabs to spaces before sorting."
425 (interactive "P\nr")
426 (save-excursion
427 (let (beg1 end1 col-beg1 col-end1 col-start col-end)
428 (goto-char (min beg end))
429 (setq col-beg1 (current-column))
430 (beginning-of-line)
431 (setq beg1 (point))
432 (goto-char (max beg end))
433 (setq col-end1 (current-column))
434 (forward-line)
435 (setq end1 (point))
436 (setq col-start (min col-beg1 col-end1))
437 (setq col-end (max col-beg1 col-end1))
438 (if (search-backward "\t" beg1 t)
439 (error "sort-columns does not work with tabs. Use M-x untabify."))
440 (if (not (eq system-type 'vax-vms))
441 ;; Use the sort utility if we can; it is 4 times as fast.
442 (call-process-region beg1 end1 "sort" t t nil
443 (if reverse "-rt\n" "-t\n")
444 (concat "+0." col-start)
445 (concat "-0." col-end))
446 ;; On VMS, use Emacs's own facilities.
447 (save-excursion
448 (save-restriction
449 (narrow-to-region beg1 end1)
450 (goto-char beg1)
451 (sort-subr reverse 'forward-line 'end-of-line
452 (function (lambda () (move-to-column col-start) nil))
453 (function (lambda () (move-to-column col-end) nil)))))))))
2af3a0e3 454
f9f9507e 455;;;###autoload
2af3a0e3 456(defun reverse-region (beg end)
457 "Reverse the order of lines in a region.
458From a program takes two point or marker arguments, BEG and END."
459 (interactive "r")
460 (if (> beg end)
461 (let (mid) (setq mid end end beg beg mid)))
462 (save-excursion
463 ;; put beg at the start of a line and end and the end of one --
464 ;; the largest possible region which fits this criteria
465 (goto-char beg)
466 (or (bolp) (forward-line 1))
467 (setq beg (point))
468 (goto-char end)
469 ;; the test for bolp is for those times when end is on an empty line;
470 ;; it is probably not the case that the line should be included in the
471 ;; reversal; it isn't difficult to add it afterward.
472 (or (and (eolp) (not (bolp))) (progn (forward-line -1) (end-of-line)))
473 (setq end (point-marker))
474 ;; the real work. this thing cranks through memory on large regions.
475 (let (ll (do t))
476 (while do
477 (goto-char beg)
478 (setq ll (cons (buffer-substring (point) (progn (end-of-line) (point)))
479 ll))
480 (setq do (/= (point) end))
481 (delete-region beg (if do (1+ (point)) (point))))
482 (while (cdr ll)
483 (insert (car ll) "\n")
484 (setq ll (cdr ll)))
485 (insert (car ll)))))
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486
487(provide 'sort)
488
c88ab9ce 489;;; sort.el ends here