bug#73623: sort-lines fails

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Worik Stanton <worik.stanton@tirotech.co.nz>
> Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2024 10:47:37 +1300
> 
> Emacs 29.4.50
> Debian 12.7
> 
> Given the following text in the selection:
> 
>    path_assets:assets.getAssetDir(),
>    path_images:get_image_path(),
>    product: job_info.product ?? "\\textless Not Specified \\textgreater ",
>    user: get_poa_user(),
>             pop_rates: converted_pop_map,
> 
> The command `sort-lines` does not change the order

I cannot reproduce this, and least not if I paste the above text into
a new buffer under Fundamental mode.  Did you mark the text to make
the region include all of it, before invoking sort-lines?  When
invoked interactively, that command sorts lines inside the region, so
you must mark all of those lines first.  You say "text in the
selection", but I don't understand whether this means the region or
something else.

So please show a reproducible recipe starting from "emacs -Q" to
exhibit this problematic behavior.  If you need to enable some
non-default modes to produce the problem, please state those modes
explicitly in the recipe.

Thanks.