* Sort Phrases @ 2012-10-22 11:27 Sanjib Sikder 2012-10-22 11:40 ` Giovanni Ridolfi 2012-10-22 13:26 ` Nick Dokos 0 siblings, 2 replies; 5+ messages in thread From: Sanjib Sikder @ 2012-10-22 11:27 UTC (permalink / raw) To: emacs-orgmode [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 425 bytes --] Hi, I know it is possible to sort words and sort lines alphabetically in emacs org-mode but is it possible to sort phrases ? For example, Face the music, Fifteen minutes of fame, A beautiful mind. I want to sort it alphabetically like, A beautiful mind, Face the music, Fifteen minutes of fame. Is it possible ? Thanks. ----------------------------- *Sanjib Sikder *Ph.D. Fellow Chemical Engineering IIT Bombay* * [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 733 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: Sort Phrases 2012-10-22 11:27 Sort Phrases Sanjib Sikder @ 2012-10-22 11:40 ` Giovanni Ridolfi 2012-10-22 18:14 ` Sanjib Sikder 2012-10-22 13:26 ` Nick Dokos 1 sibling, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread From: Giovanni Ridolfi @ 2012-10-22 11:40 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Sanjib Sikder, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Da: Sanjib Sikder <sanjibju2002@gmail.com> Inviato: Lunedì 22 Ottobre 2012 13:27 > I know it is possible to sort words and sort lines alphabetically in emacs org-mode Would you please be so kind to explain to me how? I have only: org-sort-entries M-x ... RET Sort entries on a certain level of an outline tree. org-sort-list M-x ... RET Sort list items. org-table-sort-lines <Sort lines in region> in a table. Is it possible to sort words like: banana fruit chees apple or lines like banana fruit chees apple > but is it possible to sort phrases ? > Face the music, Fifteen minutes of fame, A beautiful mind. > I want to sort it alphabetically like, > A beautiful mind, Face the music, Fifteen minutes of fame. In Emacs everything is possible. - substitute "," with \n - sort region - substitute \n with "," Cheers, Giovanni ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: Sort Phrases 2012-10-22 11:40 ` Giovanni Ridolfi @ 2012-10-22 18:14 ` Sanjib Sikder 2012-10-22 18:18 ` Sanjib Sikder 0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread From: Sanjib Sikder @ 2012-10-22 18:14 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Giovanni Ridolfi; +Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 2038 bytes --] Hi Giovanni, You need to put the following lines into your .emacs to sort WORDS and LINES. --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- ;;;Sort words (defun sort-words (reverse beg end) "Sort words in region alphabetically, in REVERSE if negative. Prefixed with negative \\[universal-argument], sorts in reverse. The variable `sort-fold-case' determines whether alphabetic case affects the sort order. See `sort-regexp-fields'." (interactive "*P\nr") (sort-regexp-fields reverse "\\w+" "\\&" beg end)) --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- Then to sort words like apple, mango, oranges, cat, elephant You need to do M-x sort-words To sort lines, similarly do M-x sort-lines ----------------------------- *Sanjib Sikder *Ph.D. Fellow Chemical Engineering IIT Bombay* * On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Giovanni Ridolfi <giovanni.ridolfi@yahoo.it > wrote: > Da: Sanjib Sikder <sanjibju2002@gmail.com> > > Inviato: Lunedì 22 Ottobre 2012 13:27 > > > > I know it is possible to sort words and sort lines alphabetically in > emacs org-mode > > Would you please be so kind to explain to me how? > > I have only: > org-sort-entries M-x ... RET Sort entries on a certain level > of an outline tree. > org-sort-list M-x ... RET Sort list items. > org-table-sort-lines <Sort lines in region> in a > table. > > > Is it possible to sort words like: > > banana fruit chees apple > > or lines like > > > banana > > fruit > chees > > apple > > > > > but is it possible to sort phrases ? > > > Face the music, Fifteen minutes of fame, A beautiful mind. > > I want to sort it alphabetically like, > > A beautiful mind, Face the music, Fifteen minutes of fame. > > In Emacs everything is possible. > > - substitute "," with \n > - sort region > - substitute \n with "," > > Cheers, > > Giovanni > > [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 2893 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: Sort Phrases 2012-10-22 18:14 ` Sanjib Sikder @ 2012-10-22 18:18 ` Sanjib Sikder 0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread From: Sanjib Sikder @ 2012-10-22 18:18 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Giovanni Ridolfi; +Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 2679 bytes --] Hi Giovanni, - substitute "," with \n > - sort region > - substitute \n with "," > 1. I am new in org-mode and emacs. Can you please tell me what is "sort region" and what are the key bindings ? 2. Is there a way by which I can replace all the ',' with '\n' and do the reverse automatically ? Thanks. ----------------------------- *Sanjib Sikder *Ph.D. Fellow Chemical Engineering IIT Bombay* * On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 11:44 PM, Sanjib Sikder <sanjibju2002@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi Giovanni, > > You need to put the following lines into your .emacs to sort WORDS and > LINES. > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > > ;;;Sort words > (defun sort-words (reverse beg end) > "Sort words in region alphabetically, in REVERSE if negative. > Prefixed with negative \\[universal-argument], sorts in reverse. > The variable `sort-fold-case' determines whether alphabetic case > affects the sort order. > See `sort-regexp-fields'." > (interactive "*P\nr") > (sort-regexp-fields reverse "\\w+" "\\&" beg end)) > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > > Then to sort words like > > apple, mango, oranges, cat, elephant > > You need to do > > M-x sort-words > > To sort lines, similarly do > > M-x sort-lines > > > > ----------------------------- > *Sanjib Sikder > *Ph.D. Fellow > Chemical Engineering > IIT Bombay* > > * > > > > On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Giovanni Ridolfi < > giovanni.ridolfi@yahoo.it> wrote: > >> Da: Sanjib Sikder <sanjibju2002@gmail.com> >> >> Inviato: Lunedì 22 Ottobre 2012 13:27 >> >> >> > I know it is possible to sort words and sort lines alphabetically in >> emacs org-mode >> >> Would you please be so kind to explain to me how? >> >> I have only: >> org-sort-entries M-x ... RET Sort entries on a certain level >> of an outline tree. >> org-sort-list M-x ... RET Sort list items. >> org-table-sort-lines <Sort lines in region> in >> a table. >> >> >> Is it possible to sort words like: >> >> banana fruit chees apple >> >> or lines like >> >> >> banana >> >> fruit >> chees >> >> apple >> >> >> >> > but is it possible to sort phrases ? >> >> > Face the music, Fifteen minutes of fame, A beautiful mind. >> > I want to sort it alphabetically like, >> > A beautiful mind, Face the music, Fifteen minutes of fame. >> >> In Emacs everything is possible. >> >> - substitute "," with \n >> - sort region >> - substitute \n with "," >> >> Cheers, >> >> Giovanni >> >> > [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 4128 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: Sort Phrases 2012-10-22 11:27 Sort Phrases Sanjib Sikder 2012-10-22 11:40 ` Giovanni Ridolfi @ 2012-10-22 13:26 ` Nick Dokos 1 sibling, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread From: Nick Dokos @ 2012-10-22 13:26 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Sanjib Sikder; +Cc: emacs-orgmode Sanjib Sikder <sanjibju2002@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I know it is possible to sort words and sort lines alphabetically in emacs org-mode but is it > possible to sort phrases ? > > For example, > > Face the music, Fifteen minutes of fame, A beautiful mind. > > I want to sort it alphabetically like, > > A beautiful mind, Face the music, Fifteen minutes of fame. > > Is it possible ? > Not with native org-mode facilities, I think. It is possible of course, but you would need to write your own elisp to do it. Nick ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
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