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From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
Subject: Re: Patch to implement sorting Org tables by IP address
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 23:58:09 +0100
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To: Jon Snader <jsnader@mac.com>
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Hello,

Jon Snader <jsnader@mac.com> writes:

> There is currently no easy way to sort an Org table by IP address. The
> only method I could find involves selecting the IP addresses in
> a rectangle and piping them to sort with a complicated sort recipe.
> Even though I am not a system administrator, I sometimes need to
> maintain tables that I=E2=80=99d like to keep sorted by IP address.
>
> The attached patch implements sorting Org tables natively.

Thank you for your patch.

However I think the feature implemented is too specific. Instead,
`org-do-sort' could provide a way to pass an arbitrary predicate,
like ?f and ?F in `org-sort-list'.

WDYT?


Regards,

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Nicolas Goaziou