Comments on: Sorting Text by Line, Field and Regexp in Emacs

By: mickey

mickey — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 09:41:10 +0000

Hello. Sorry for the late reply.

Given this:

biz index: 5 foo
index: 4 foobar
barbaz index: 3

I can turn it into this:

barbaz index: 3
index: 4 foobar
biz index: 5 foo

Using the following:

M-x sort-regexp-fields RET
Regexp specifying records to sort: ^.+$
Regexp specifying key within record: index: [0-9]+

Enjoy

By: Linhua Tan

Linhua Tan — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 03:13:58 +0000

How could I use the sort-regexp-fields to emulate the sort-numeric-fields. I tried like this:
123
345
90
80
1999
sort-regexp-fields
Regexp specifying records to sort: \([0-9]+\)
Regexp specifying key within record: \, \#1
But it can’t work.
what I really want to sort is something like this:
foo index: 123
index: 345 boo
…
the question is: I want to sort the lines by the number after the word “index”, but the number is not in the same field, they just have a word “index” before it. what should I do to complete this? can you help me?

By: Raj

Raj — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:32:43 +0000

Thanks for the article. The command which shows how to select the column on which to sort is particularly useful.

Raj

By: mickey

mickey — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 12:14:03 +0000

Mary,

Try M-1 M-x sort-numeric-fields to sort by the first column.

Mickey.

By: Mary Sims

Mary Sims — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 18:53:49 +0000

I am not a brainiac but I’m trying. On the excel sheet the school bus numbers are in row a, the drivers last name is in row b. The drivers first name is in row c. The drivers phone # is in row D. Row E has a elementary school, row F has middle school and row G has high school. This is an example:

1234 Doe John 123-4567 washington franklin wilson.

These items are in individual rows. I would like to sort by bus number with their information next to the number. HELP.

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 19:38:12 +0000

Try org-sort-entries!

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 31 May 2011 20:13:22 +0000

So suppose I have an org-mode document that looks like:
* Title 1
** Section blah
stuff here
** Section blah-more
more stuff here
** Section argh
even more stuff

and I want to sort the sections (and their accompanying text) so that Section argh is first.

How would I do that?

By: Igor Sosa

Igor Sosa — Tue, 31 May 2011 13:39:43 +0000

many thanks for your articles! They are really interesting!

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