bug#44597: closed (26.3; bibtex should allow reverse sorting)

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> 26.3; bibtex should allow reverse sorting
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> Thu, 12 Nov 2020 19:30:14 +0100
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> I wish bibtex mode would allow for reverse sorting of entries.
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> Some years ago I used to obtain that behaviour by advising the sort-subr
> functions when called inside a bibtex-mode buffer.  No more.
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> The modern bibtex.el sorts an entry when bibtex-clean-entry is called
> when bibtex-maintain-sorted-entries is t without calling sort-subr, but
> relying only on bibtex-lessp, which is not easy to advice.
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> I have numbered labels, and I want them to stay in reverse order as they
> are, but now I can get that behaviour only by setting
> bibtex-maintain-sorted-entries to nil
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> Please add some way to reverse the order of entries
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> Fri, 30 Dec 2022 00:29:35 -0600
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> On Fri, Dec 18 2020, Roland Winkler wrote:
> > Thanks.  To simplify things, I just installed my patch for
> > user-defined sorting schemes.  Even if it does not provide an
> > easy-to-use solution, it should cover even the most exotic
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