"Charles C. Berry" writes: > On Sat, 6 Jun 2015, Sharon Kimble wrote: > >> Nick Dokos writes: >> >>> Sharon Kimble writes: >>> >>>> I've been unable to sort an unordered list as per >>>> http://orgmode.org/manual/Plain-lists.html where it says 'C-c ^' but >>>> everytime I try on a highlighted region it just inserts ^ at the >>>> beginning of the first item. >>>> >>> > > [description of keyboard issues deleted] > >> >> Essentially the only viable, working, key in emacs on the 'F-key >> row' was 'F5'! >> >> So I'm now back on my old keyboard, and back to working as usual, >> but still unable to sort any lists. >> > > What does `M-x org-sort RET' yield? > > Chuck --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- Sort plain list: [a]lpha [n]umeric [t]ime [f]unc [x]checked A/N/T/F/X means reversed: --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Wow! I didn't know about that! And I can sort with that too, I've just done it, brilliant, thanks very much! :) Thanks Sharon. -- A taste of linux = http://www.sharons.org.uk TGmeds = http://www.tgmeds.org.uk Debian 8.0, fluxbox 1.3.7, emacs 24.5.50.1