Questions tagged [sorting]
Use the sorting tag for questions involving arranging things in a defined order: sorting lines alphabetically, bibtex entries by date or author, emails by sender, completion candidates by various criteria, etc.
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How do you sort tokens within a line
Sorting lines in Emacs is fairly straightforward with sort-lines.
However, how do I sort within a line? For example: John Ringo Paul George -> George John Paul Ringo
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suppress a completion candidate, or configure the sorting of completion results?
When I do M-x bury, my completion setup (I use fido-mode, along with vertico and marginalia), produces these results:
1/95 M-x bury
rmail-bury ...
bury-buffer ...
unbury-buffer ...
(etc etc etc)
I ...
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Org mode table column sort in evil mode?
You sort org mode tables using C-c ^ in emacs, but how do you do the same in evil/vim mode?
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How to ignore accents (À Â É Ê etc.) when sorting?
When sorting text with Emacs, the result is wrong for accented characters:
Always
Emerald
Yesterday
Zoo
À la campagne
Âge
Écarlate
Être
Here is the result I would like instead:
À la campagne
Âge
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How to sort structured blocks?
There are cases where I wish to sort data that has been wrapped across multiple lines, making a simple line-sort not work usefully e.g.
'("x" "b" "c" "a lot of text&...
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Display completion options from top to bottom in alphabetical order?
Completion are currently listed in alphabetical order as
a b c
d e f
With alphabetical order going from left to right.
How can I can change this to.
a c e
b d f
With alphabetical order going from ...
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Sort text by group in markdown
I'm not a tech person. I've been using Neovim for the last year or so for writing, and I love it. But I'm considering making the switch to Emacs for the ability to use non-mono fonts. I use markdown ...
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Sort org-agenda entries chronologically with grid in the middle
Is it possible to get my items sorted in a chronological manner, such that the grid remains in "today" relative to other entries? Something like this:
cat1: sched 5 days ago TODO task 1.
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Incorporate a list of floats, into another list of floats, in numerical order, with remainders
In this example, there is a list of miscellaneous orphan floats '(9.9 10.1 10.3 10.5 10.7 10.9 11.1) that needs to be incorporated in numerical order into a second main / master list (10.0 10.2 10.4 ...
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Sorting counts in descending order
Have the following code that counts the number of times words are used. I want to list the results sorted by the number of counts.
(defun rk-word-analysis (reg-beg reg-end)
"Count ...
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sort: How to specify the order in which multiple sorts are performed
In the following example, there are two criteria for sorting -- orders with an inactive status should appear last in the last, and all orders should be organized by order number from smallest to ...
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Not correct reverse sort in dired mode
Linux Mint 20.2
Emacs 27.2
Installed packages:
dired+
dired-hacks-utils-20201005.2318
dired-k-20200322.2035
dired-narrow-20181114.1723
dired-quick-sort-20201221.403
dired-recent-20211004.1924
dired-...
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How can I sort a list of buffers according to a buffer-local variable?
I am setting a buffer-local variable called my/tab-order in (some) of my buffers.
I have written the following function to return a list of buffers only where my/tab-order has been set and is greater ...
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Sorting lines based on numbers in unicode
I want to sort some text in emacs that is based on a field that contains verse numbers in unicode (devanagari). The text is like this:
Verse text bla १०.३ #10.3
Verse text blah This is १.१९ #1.19
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Get company to sort single underscore before double underscore, specifically with elpy/python-mode
Edit: this question is a duplicate of this one; I'm leaving it because I got a helpful answer and I didn't find the other one after reasonable amount of searching (so I hope this one being here will ...
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How to activate functions on .org files from within agenda view?
From agenda view, is it possible to execute functions on specific .org files?
Example setup: foo.org and bar.org are source files for agenda
Example working function from : Sort entire hierarchy in an ...
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C-x C-f TAB TAB: Find file completion list: how to highlight subdirectories?
Often I'd like to open a file in a subdirectory. But poor me, I can't remember the name. So when typing C-x C-f and then TAB TAB for the completion list, the list of all files in this directory is ...
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The list-buffers command. How to make the 'Buffer' column sort case-insensitively, when click on it?
C-x C-b is normally bound to the list-buffers command.
The resulting buffer has various columns, which are CRM, Buffer, Size, Mode, and File.
When I can click on the Buffer column-header, it will ...
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Sort lines omitting a prefix of a certain length?
Many of my python files have an import section that looks like this:
from datetime import datetime, timedelta
from typing import Callable
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
I'd like to sort ...
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How to add a string at nth position of an ordered list of strings
The built-in function add-to-ordered-list is for symbols, not strings. I have a list of strings and need to add another string to the list at a specific nth position. How can I accomplish this?
TASK:...
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How can I sort Org headings by value in :properties:
My org file structure is this:
* Heading 1
:PROPERTIES:
:EVENT_CREATED: [2016-11-28]
:END:
* Heading 2
:PROPERTIES:
:EVENT_CREATED: [2016-10-27]
:END:
* Heading 3
:PROPERTIES:
:EVENT_CREATED: [2019-02-...
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Sorting todos by custom todo label when invoking `org-todo-list` with `C-c a t`
I have defined some custom todos keywords with
(setq org-todo-keywords
'((sequence "TODO" "TODAY" "IN-PROGRESS" "WAITING" "URGENT" "FUTURE&...
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Emacs on Windows. Dired - no sorting. Unrecognized symbols
Set up Doom Emacs on windows. Works fine but in Dired i have unrecognized symbols and also in org-capture. Sorting in dired does not work either. Any ideas? Latest Emacs.
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Custom agenda sorting by CREATED date
I put together the function below but it doesn't work. The problem is get-text-property returns nil for every task.
Any idea how to get the CREATED property and fix the entire thing?
(defun jarfar/org-...
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How to efficiently merge 2 buffers which are partially overlapping?
Problem summary
Imagine, you have 2 shopping lists:
1 huge one with hundreds of entries - list A, copied into buffer A
1 containing dozens of entries - list B, copied into buffer B
Then:
75% of ...
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Sort Chinese Characters in Emacs
Is there a ready-made function that sorts Chinese characters (by pinyin or stroke number) in Emacs in an org-table or line by line in regular text?
If not, how should one go about writing such ...
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How to sort in Dired by size and extension and have directories listed first and full date/time details
I'm using the excelent dired-fixups.el by Dino Chiesa for sorting in Dired by size and extension (see here).
The only gotcha is that I'd like to combine it with a fuller date/time description. Also, ...
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Is there a way to change order of the key in a hashtable?
Say i have following keys in hashtable:
"first1"
"second2"
"third3"
"forth4"
Is there a way to put key "third3" at the top. So that when i run func hash-table-keys i get following list:
("third3" "...
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Sort ripgrep results based on proximity to current buffer
I use counsel-projectile-rg to search within the project I work on. But there is my sub-project inside this big repo that most of my development is in.
Is there a way to sort ripgrep results based on ...
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How to sort comma separated (or otherwise) text?
Suppose I have the following text:
int z;
int a;
int c;
int g;
or the following text:
z, a, c, g
How can I sort them to:
int a;
int c;
int g;
int z;
and
a, c, g, z
respectively?
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Ivy: sort candidates by most recently used
I'm coming from Helm to Ivy just to try it out, and one thing I miss greatly from Helm is how the default candidate when hitting M-x is whatever the last command was.
Is there some way to sort Ivy's ...
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How to order a single line relative to other lines in a block of text?
How can a line be sorted relative to other lines at the same indentation level?
This would be useful whenever adding an item to an ordered list of definitions (file lists or forward definitions).
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Sorting org files in Emacs Dired on the basis of the org time stamp in the file itself
Is there a way of sorting org files (.org) in Emacs Dired on the basis of the org time stamp in the file itself. With every org file I create, I insert an org time stamp near the top of the file. This ...
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Why dired+ not save sort mode?
windows 10,
Emacs 26.1,
Dired+
Suppose I has 3 files and sort it by name in dired mode.
Smt like this:
OK. Now I sort it by date, press s
Here result:
OK.
Now I edit file 3.txt and after save ...
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how to sort tasks in agenda using todo-state-up?
I defined 4 TODO keywords. Two are in the TODO state and two others (DONE and CNCL) belong to the DONE state:
(setq org-todo-keywords
'((sequence "TODO" "WAIT" "|" "DONE" "CNCL" )))
I defined ...
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emacs ruby mode: can I reorder methods in file (alphabetical order)
After opening the file
app/controllers/pages_controller.rb
Which has
class PagesController < ApplicationController
def foo
puts "foo"
end
def baa
puts "baa"
end
end
I ...
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is there a way to sort only on second level headlines in org mode?
is there a way to sort only on second level headlines in org mode?
i am outlining a novel with top level headline being the chapter number and the second level headline being the timeline of the ...
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Why so strange sort in dired mode?
windows 10, emacs 26.1, dired+
here myfolder in dired mode sort by name (by default):
Now I want to sort by date (inverse mode). I press s and here result:
why file new.txt is above two dots?
The ...
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Is there a timsort implementation in Emacs Lisp?
Timsort is the default sort algo of Python and Java and it performs better than mergesort on roughly sorted lists. I could not find any implementation of this in Elisp. How can I find out whether ...
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Getting a sorted window list
(window-list) returns a list of visible windows. Is it possible to
get this list sorted from the most recently active window to the least?
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sort-columns, but with a stable sort
How can I perform the equivalent of M-x sort-columns with a stable sort?
For example, let's say my text is:
a 99
b 98
b 97
a 96
a 95
b 94
a 93
b 92
c 91
...
And I want to perform a stable sort ...
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How to alphabetize strings with diacritics?
Q: how do I alphabetize strings with diacritics?
Problem
I have a long list of author names, some of whom have letters with
diacritics in their names (e.g., "á" or "é"). I want to sort this
list ...
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Implementing (org-agenda) sort comparison function in terms of presence of list items
I want to implement an org-agenda-cmp-user-defined for use with org-agenda-sorting-strategy and user-defined-up / user-defined-down.
In order to do that, I have two lists of tags I need to compare, ...
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Finding next and previous entries in an avl-tree
I am using an avl-tree to maintain a sorted list, e.g.:
(require 'avl-tree)
(let ((tree (avl-tree-create (lambda (a b) (string-lessp (car a) (car b))))))
(avl-tree-enter tree (cons "b" 0))
(avl-...
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Reorder fields using bibtex-mode
I would like to clean up BibTeX entries so that fields always appear in the same order.
For example, I would like the order of fields to always be: author, year, title, journal. So, pressing C-c C-q ...
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Sort org-agenda items by category
When using the agenda in org-mode to show my daily tasks, there's a bunch of tasks scheduled for that day (or with past deadlines) that appear at the bottom.
I'd like these tasks, and only these, to ...
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org-mode error: Region to sort contains a level above the first entry
When calling org-sort-entries on an outline item, I get the error
Region to sort contains a level above the first entry
with no indication of what or where the problem is.
What does this error mean, ...
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How to sort lines ignoring a pattern?
I would like to sort some lines, ignoring a leading part of them.
Here's an example from my .spacemacs file:
'(
better-defaults
elixir
emacs-lisp
erlang
evil-commentary
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How does sorting work within habits?
I think I have a reasonable handle on agenda custom sorting, but I can't figure out how habits sort themselves within that agendas.
For a certain agenda view I sort as '(time-up habit-down todo-state-...
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How to convert paragraph into the line?
I've need a function which convert a paragraph into the line, sort each space separated set of characters and fill it back to paragraph.
In:
Supposedly there are over one million words in the ...
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