Re: how to sort words in a line

[Mathias Dahl]

Rainer Stengele <rainer.stengele@online.de> writes:

> Wow! Thats quite a piece of code for a not-yet Lisp programmer.
> Coming from perl this would be a simple one-liner doing the work.

Well, what is a one-liner? I mean, behind each one-liner in perl lies
probably a lot of code that implements that feature in perl. The
difference here is that the particular feature you wanted wasn't
implemented in Emacs. Yet.

> Don't misunderstand me - I understand the power and flexibility of
> elisp in emacs. I just wonder if there is not a built in solution.

Some day maybe someone will propose this command to be added to Emacs
and then it will be "built-in"... :)

And, if you paste Pascal's example into your .emacs file it will, for
all practical purposes, built-in.