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From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Re: Sorting table columns (*not* content)
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On Nov 1, 2010, at 3:15 PM, Gary wrote:

> Jeff Horn wrote:
>
>> Hope this helps,
>
> Not much, really. You're saying that I can do rectangle editing,  
> which I
> knew. Are you basically saying "you have to sort them yourself"? (If  
> so,
> that's okay, it's a valid answer, even if it isn't the one I want!)

I guess in many cases it will be fast to sort by hand in a situation
like this.  Maybe not using rectangle commands, but using the commands
for dragging along a column, M-right and M-left.

If you have many columns, you can use a transposition as indicated
very cleverly by Juan.  Or you can write the command and send us a  
patch :D
Maybe just a bubble sort, using the column-shifting commands might be  
good enough.

How many columns do you have?

Cheers.

- Carsten