bug#73623: sort-lines fails

[Eli Zaretskii]

Ping!  Worik, could you please post the details I asked for, so we
could investigate this issue?

> Cc: 73623@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2024 10:03:07 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> 
> > 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.
> 
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