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From: | Roland Hughes |
Subject: | bug#40697: 25.3; sort-lines not accepting reverse parameter |
Date: | Sat, 18 Apr 2020 14:35:00 -0500 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.7.0 |
On 4/18/20 2:12 PM, Štěpán Němec wrote:
The biggest turn-off for most new users, even of GUI Emacs is the endless string of C-u M-x C-h letter sequences. EDT mode was a big draw because it could eliminate almost all of that. I've been in IT over 30 years and never found anything more intuitive than keypad navigation.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
C-u [GOLD]-7 doesn't reliably work. It works the first time, but if you try another sort in the same buffer they don't seem to work. I got similar results with C-u M-x in a shiny new buffer with the same data. First sort worked, second one didn't.
From the doc I was really hoping they (whoever they are) had made Emacs more intuitive with EDT mode.
[GOLD]-7 sort-lines reverse [RETURN]is much more intuitive IMO, as someone who used EDT for years. I've also done Linux and embedded systems work for years too.
The emacswiki site was much more informative than the doc. https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SortingAccording to the doc the "sort-lines reverse" should have worked. The wiki doesn't even present that as a possibility.
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