bug#40697: 25.3; sort-lines not accepting reverse parameter

[Roland Hughes]

Okay, I was not descriptive enough.

In interactive mode you cannot enter the argument but according to the 
documentation I should be able to. To enter an argument I would have to 
be able to use the space bar after entering sort-lines. When I try using 
the spacebar I get [SoleCompletion] and no space. Cannot enter argument.

On 4/18/20 11:15 AM, Štěpán Němec wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Apr 2020 06:34:58 -0500
> Roland Hughes wrote:
>
> > --text follows this line--
> >
> > I created a named buffer and pasted a few hundred lines of numbers in
> > it. When I
> > tried to enter the command "sort-lines reverse" as soon as I hit the
> > spacebar I
> > was greeted with [SoleCompletion] and could not enter the parameter.
> The documentation string of `sort-line' reads:
>
> ---8<---
> Sort lines in region alphabetically; argument means descending order.
> Called from a program, there are three arguments:
> REVERSE (non-nil means reverse order), BEG and END (region to sort).
> The variable ‘sort-fold-case’ determines whether alphabetic case affects
> the sort order.
> --->8---
>
> Note the "called from a program" before description of the arguments.
>
> "argument" in the first sentence means the prefix argument during
> interactive calls, as described in (info "(emacs) Arguments")
>
> Maybe we should improve the wording? Would just saying "When called
> interactively, prefix argument means sort in descending order" be
> enough?
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