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

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On Sat, 18 Apr 2020 13:45:17 -0500
Roland Hughes wrote:

> 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.

I think you misunderstand. The command does not read any arguments. The
"argument" mentioned in the doc string is the interactive _prefix_
argument.

Please do have a look at the manual section I mentioned:

  (info "(emacs) Arguments")

(you can put point after the closing paren and press C-x C-e)

Or even try the Emacs tutorial (C-h t) if it's still unclear.

Also, Eli has since tried to clarify the doc string on the emacs-27
branch:

2020-04-18T19:26:30+03:00!eliz@gnu.org
6c187ed6b0 (Improve documentation of 'sort-lines')
https://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=6c187ed6b0

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