Re: but what if the items they wanted to sort were all on one line?

[David Kastrup]

jidanni@deadspam.com (Dan Jacobson) writes:

> Of all the sorting commands listed in Info: sort-lines, etc. the
> likelihood is big one day that a user will come with a line to sort like
> 2 7 8 12 21 23 15 29 30 36 38.
> I mean you have several functions ready for users with data in one
> item per line formats, but none to sort many items on the same
> line---an indeed common thing one might want to do.  Perhaps one at
> least could add one solution to the Docs, e.g.
> 
> $ echo 2 7 8 12 21 23 15 29 30 36 38|tr \  \\n|sort -n|tr \\n \ 
> 2 7 8 12 15 21 23 29 30 36 38 0

Fill the region with a line width of 1 character, sort, then fill the
region with a line width of point-max.

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