Let's say I have a subtree, of review materials, for example. I would like to randomize the order of the elements. I would like to have the option to randomize the subtree in some different ways: 1. sort the members of one subtree that is a list, randomly. 2. sort all the headlines, randomly. 3. sort the subtrees randomly, and the lists within each sub-subtree also randomly, ad nauseum. I have written a sort routine in elisp. It's been many long years ago, but I remember that the basis support for writing sorts is pretty general. Suppose I had time to do this. What would I need to look at? Of course, my need is today, to sort review materials for my students in random order. Alan Davis "Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value." --- R. Buckminster Fuller