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From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
To: Jon Snader <jsnader@mac.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Patch to implement sorting Org tables by IP address
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 12:25:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tx0y79st.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2217AFF8-7135-4EAC-A189-8152FDDE52F9@mac.com> (Jon Snader's message of "Sat, 13 Dec 2014 17:37:13 -0500")

Jon Snader <jsnader@mac.com> writes:

> Well, I’m just going by what happens now. In org-do-sort, each of the
> sort options sets a different extraction function. For example, if you
> want a numeric sort, the extraction function calls string-to-number,
> while if you want an alphabetic sort it calls
> org-sort-remove-invisible. Really, this doesn’t matter because I was
> merely commenting on why (prompt . comparison) isn’t enough. Of
> course, you could roll any special extraction functionality into the
> comparison but I don’t really like that.

Then 

  (prompt comparison extraction)

while still allowing 

  (prompt comparison)

which would be a special case for

  (prompt comparison #'org-sort-remove-invisible)

> Anyway, what I was suggesting in my last post was that we duplicate
> the functionality of org-sort-list.

This what I initially suggested. However, I'm trying to see if a table
approach would ultimately be better.

> There, if you’re calling it programmatically you specify getkey-func
> and compare-func. If you call it interactively, it asks you for the
> extraction function (which must return a string or number) and it
> tests it to see which comparison function to use. I like this approach
> because it makes org-sort-list and org-table-sort-lines work the same
> way. What’s not to like?

The networking researcher will have to provide its sorting function each
time, which was one of your arguments.


Regards,

  reply	other threads:[~2014-12-14 11:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-09 19:16 Patch to implement sorting Org tables by IP address Jon Snader
2014-12-12 22:58 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2014-12-13 14:19   ` Jon Snader
2014-12-13 14:29     ` Nicolas Goaziou
2014-12-13 15:19       ` Jon Snader
2014-12-13 16:01         ` Nicolas Goaziou
2014-12-13 18:47           ` Jon Snader
2014-12-13 22:07             ` Nicolas Goaziou
2014-12-13 22:37               ` Jon Snader
2014-12-14 11:25                 ` Nicolas Goaziou [this message]
2014-12-14 15:19                   ` Jon Snader
2014-12-14 17:18                     ` Nicolas Goaziou
2014-12-17 17:31                       ` Jon Snader
2014-12-20 11:57                         ` Nicolas Goaziou
2014-12-20 18:40                           ` Jon Snader
2014-12-20 20:55                             ` Nicolas Goaziou

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