1 ;;; sort.el --- commands to sort text in an Emacs buffer.
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27 ;;; This package provides the sorting facilities documented in the Emacs
32 (defvar sort-fold-case nil
33 "*Non-nil if the buffer sort functions should ignore case.")
36 (defun sort-subr (reverse nextrecfun endrecfun
&optional startkeyfun endkeyfun
)
37 "General text sorting routine to divide buffer into records and sort them.
38 Arguments are REVERSE NEXTRECFUN ENDRECFUN &optional STARTKEYFUN ENDKEYFUN.
40 We divide the accessible portion of the buffer into disjoint pieces
41 called sort records. A portion of each sort record (perhaps all of
42 it) is designated as the sort key. The records are rearranged in the
43 buffer in order by their sort keys. The records may or may not be
46 Usually the records are rearranged in order of ascending sort key.
47 If REVERSE is non-nil, they are rearranged in order of descending sort key.
49 The next four arguments are functions to be called to move point
50 across a sort record. They will be called many times from within sort-subr.
52 NEXTRECFUN is called with point at the end of the previous record.
53 It moves point to the start of the next record.
54 It should move point to the end of the buffer if there are no more records.
55 The first record is assumed to start at the position of point when sort-subr
58 ENDRECFUN is called with point within the record.
59 It should move point to the end of the record.
61 STARTKEYFUN moves from the start of the record to the start of the key.
62 It may return either a non-nil value to be used as the key, or
63 else the key is the substring between the values of point after
64 STARTKEYFUN and ENDKEYFUN are called. If STARTKEYFUN is nil, the key
65 starts at the beginning of the record.
67 ENDKEYFUN moves from the start of the sort key to the end of the sort key.
68 ENDKEYFUN may be nil if STARTKEYFUN returns a value or if it would be the
70 ;; Heuristically try to avoid messages if sorting a small amt of text.
71 (let ((messages (> (- (point-max) (point-min)) 50000)))
73 (if messages
(message "Finding sort keys..."))
74 (let* ((sort-lists (sort-build-lists nextrecfun endrecfun
75 startkeyfun endkeyfun
))
76 (old (reverse sort-lists
))
77 (case-fold-search sort-fold-case
))
80 (or reverse
(setq sort-lists
(nreverse sort-lists
)))
81 (if messages
(message "Sorting records..."))
83 (if (fboundp 'sortcar
)
85 (cond ((numberp (car (car sort-lists
)))
86 ;; This handles both ints and floats.
88 ((consp (car (car sort-lists
)))
91 (> 0 (compare-buffer-substrings
93 nil
(car b
) (cdr b
))))))
97 (cond ((numberp (car (car sort-lists
)))
100 (< (car a
) (car b
)))))
101 ((consp (car (car sort-lists
)))
104 (> 0 (compare-buffer-substrings
105 nil
(car (car a
)) (cdr (car a
))
106 nil
(car (car b
)) (cdr (car b
)))))))
110 (string< (car a
) (car b
)))))))))
111 (if reverse
(setq sort-lists
(nreverse sort-lists
)))
112 (if messages
(message "Reordering buffer..."))
113 (sort-reorder-buffer sort-lists old
)))
114 (if messages
(message "Reordering buffer... Done"))))
117 ;; Parse buffer into records using the arguments as Lisp expressions;
118 ;; return a list of records. Each record looks like (KEY STARTPOS . ENDPOS)
119 ;; where KEY is the sort key (a number or string),
120 ;; and STARTPOS and ENDPOS are the bounds of this record in the buffer.
122 ;; The records appear in the list lastmost first!
124 (defun sort-build-lists (nextrecfun endrecfun startkeyfun endkeyfun
)
125 (let ((sort-lists ())
128 ;; Loop over sort records.
129 ;(goto-char (point-min)) -- it is the caller's responsibility to
130 ;arrange this if necessary
132 (setq start-rec
(point)) ;save record start
134 ;; Get key value, or move to start of key.
135 (setq key
(catch 'key
136 (or (and startkeyfun
(funcall startkeyfun
))
137 ;; If key was not returned as value,
138 ;; move to end of key and get key from the buffer.
139 (let ((start (point)))
140 (funcall (or endkeyfun
141 (prog1 endrecfun
(setq done t
))))
142 (cons start
(point))))))
143 ;; Move to end of this record (start of next one, or end of buffer).
144 (cond ((prog1 done
(setq done nil
)))
145 (endrecfun (funcall endrecfun
))
146 (nextrecfun (funcall nextrecfun
) (setq done t
)))
147 (if key
(setq sort-lists
(cons
148 ;; consing optimization in case in which key
149 ;; is same as record.
151 (equal (car key
) start-rec
)
152 (equal (cdr key
) (point)))
154 (cons key
(cons start-rec
(point))))
156 (and (not done
) nextrecfun
(funcall nextrecfun
)))
159 (defun sort-reorder-buffer (sort-lists old
)
160 (let ((inhibit-quit t
)
162 (min (point-min)) (max (point-max)))
163 ;; Make sure insertions done for reordering
164 ;; do not go after any markers at the end of the sorted region,
165 ;; by inserting a space to separate them.
166 (goto-char (point-max))
167 (insert-before-markers " ")
168 (narrow-to-region min
(1- (point-max)))
170 (goto-char (point-max))
171 (insert-buffer-substring (current-buffer)
174 (goto-char (point-max))
175 (insert-buffer-substring (current-buffer)
176 (nth 1 (car sort-lists
))
177 (cdr (cdr (car sort-lists
))))
178 (setq last
(cdr (cdr (car old
)))
179 sort-lists
(cdr sort-lists
)
181 (goto-char (point-max))
182 (insert-buffer-substring (current-buffer)
185 ;; Delete the original copy of the text.
186 (delete-region min max
)
187 ;; Get rid of the separator " ".
188 (goto-char (point-max))
189 (narrow-to-region min
(1+ (point)))
190 (delete-region (point) (1+ (point)))))
193 (defun sort-lines (reverse beg end
)
194 "Sort lines in region alphabetically; argument means descending order.
195 Called from a program, there are three arguments:
196 REVERSE (non-nil means reverse order), BEG and END (region to sort)."
200 (narrow-to-region beg end
)
201 (goto-char (point-min))
202 (sort-subr reverse
'forward-line
'end-of-line
))))
205 (defun sort-paragraphs (reverse beg end
)
206 "Sort paragraphs in region alphabetically; argument means descending order.
207 Called from a program, there are three arguments:
208 REVERSE (non-nil means reverse order), BEG and END (region to sort)."
212 (narrow-to-region beg end
)
213 (goto-char (point-min))
217 (while (and (not (eobp)) (looking-at paragraph-separate
))
219 'forward-paragraph
))))
222 (defun sort-pages (reverse beg end
)
223 "Sort pages in region alphabetically; argument means descending order.
224 Called from a program, there are three arguments:
225 REVERSE (non-nil means reverse order), BEG and END (region to sort)."
229 (narrow-to-region beg end
)
230 (goto-char (point-min))
232 (function (lambda () (skip-chars-forward "\n")))
235 (defvar sort-fields-syntax-table nil
)
236 (if sort-fields-syntax-table nil
237 (let ((table (make-syntax-table))
240 (modify-syntax-entry i
"w" table
)
242 (modify-syntax-entry ?\
" " table
)
243 (modify-syntax-entry ?
\t " " table
)
244 (modify-syntax-entry ?
\n " " table
)
245 (modify-syntax-entry ?\.
"_" table
) ; for floating pt. numbers. -wsr
246 (setq sort-fields-syntax-table table
)))
249 (defun sort-numeric-fields (field beg end
)
250 "Sort lines in region numerically by the ARGth field of each line.
251 Fields are separated by whitespace and numbered from 1 up.
252 Specified field must contain a number in each line of the region.
253 With a negative arg, sorts by the ARGth field counted from the right.
254 Called from a program, there are three arguments:
255 FIELD, BEG and END. BEG and END specify region to sort."
257 (sort-fields-1 field beg end
259 (sort-skip-fields field
)
264 ;; This is just wrong! Even without floats...
265 ;; (skip-chars-forward "[0-9]")
271 ;;(defun sort-float-fields (field beg end)
272 ;; "Sort lines in region numerically by the ARGth field of each line.
273 ;;Fields are separated by whitespace and numbered from 1 up. Specified field
274 ;;must contain a floating point number in each line of the region. With a
275 ;;negative arg, sorts by the ARGth field counted from the right. Called from a
276 ;;program, there are three arguments: FIELD, BEG and END. BEG and END specify
278 ;; (interactive "p\nr")
279 ;; (sort-fields-1 field beg end
280 ;; (function (lambda ()
281 ;; (sort-skip-fields field)
286 ;; (re-search-forward
287 ;; "[+-]?[0-9]*\.?[0-9]*\\([eE][+-]?[0-9]+\\)?")
292 (defun sort-fields (field beg end
)
293 "Sort lines in region lexicographically by the ARGth field of each line.
294 Fields are separated by whitespace and numbered from 1 up.
295 With a negative arg, sorts by the ARGth field counted from the right.
296 Called from a program, there are three arguments:
297 FIELD, BEG and END. BEG and END specify region to sort."
299 (sort-fields-1 field beg end
301 (sort-skip-fields field
)
303 (function (lambda () (skip-chars-forward "^ \t\n")))))
305 (defun sort-fields-1 (field beg end startkeyfun endkeyfun
)
306 (let ((tbl (syntax-table)))
307 (if (zerop field
) (setq field
1))
311 (narrow-to-region beg end
)
312 (goto-char (point-min))
313 (set-syntax-table sort-fields-syntax-table
)
315 'forward-line
'end-of-line
316 startkeyfun endkeyfun
)))
317 (set-syntax-table tbl
))))
319 ;; Position at the beginning of field N on the current line,
320 ;; assuming point is initially at the beginning of the line.
321 (defun sort-skip-fields (n)
323 ;; Skip across N - 1 fields.
326 (skip-chars-forward " \t")
327 (skip-chars-forward "^ \t\n")
329 (skip-chars-forward " \t")
331 (error "Line has too few fields: %s"
333 (save-excursion (beginning-of-line) (point))
334 (save-excursion (end-of-line) (point))))))
336 ;; Skip back across - N - 1 fields.
337 (let ((i (1- (- n
))))
339 (skip-chars-backward " \t")
340 (skip-chars-backward "^ \t\n")
342 (skip-chars-backward " \t"))
344 (error "Line has too few fields: %s"
346 (save-excursion (beginning-of-line) (point))
347 (save-excursion (end-of-line) (point)))))
348 ;; Position at the front of the field
349 ;; even if moving backwards.
350 (skip-chars-backward "^ \t\n")))
353 (defun sort-regexp-fields (reverse record-regexp key-regexp beg end
)
354 "Sort the region lexicographically as specified by RECORD-REGEXP and KEY.
355 RECORD-REGEXP specifies the textual units which should be sorted.
356 For example, to sort lines RECORD-REGEXP would be \"^.*$\"
357 KEY specifies the part of each record (ie each match for RECORD-REGEXP)
358 is to be used for sorting.
359 If it is \"\\digit\" then the digit'th \"\\(...\\)\" match field from
360 RECORD-REGEXP is used.
361 If it is \"\\&\" then the whole record is used.
362 Otherwise, it is a regular-expression for which to search within the record.
363 If a match for KEY is not found within a record then that record is ignored.
365 With a negative prefix arg sorts in reverse order.
367 For example: to sort lines in the region by the first word on each line
368 starting with the letter \"f\",
369 RECORD-REGEXP would be \"^.*$\" and KEY would be \"\\=\\<f\\w*\\>\""
370 ;; using negative prefix arg to mean "reverse" is now inconsistent with
371 ;; other sort-.*fields functions but then again this was before, since it
372 ;; didn't use the magnitude of the arg to specify anything.
373 (interactive "P\nsRegexp specifying records to sort:
374 sRegexp specifying key within record: \nr")
375 (cond ((or (equal key-regexp
"") (equal key-regexp
"\\&"))
377 ((string-match "\\`\\\\[1-9]\\'" key-regexp
)
378 (setq key-regexp
(- (aref key-regexp
1) ?
0))))
381 (narrow-to-region beg end
)
382 (goto-char (point-min))
383 (let (sort-regexp-record-end) ;isn't dynamic scoping wonderful?
384 (re-search-forward record-regexp
)
385 (setq sort-regexp-record-end
(point))
386 (goto-char (match-beginning 0))
389 (and (re-search-forward record-regexp nil
'move
)
390 (setq sort-regexp-record-end
(match-end 0))
391 (goto-char (match-beginning 0)))))
393 (goto-char sort-regexp-record-end
)))
396 (cond ((numberp key-regexp
)
399 key-regexp sort-regexp-record-end t
)
401 (t (throw 'key nil
)))
403 (if (fboundp 'buffer-substring-lessp
)
404 (cons (match-beginning n
)
406 (buffer-substring (match-beginning n
)
408 ;; if there was no such register
409 (error (throw 'key nil
)))))))))))
412 (defvar sort-columns-subprocess t
)
415 (defun sort-columns (reverse &optional beg end
)
416 "Sort lines in region alphabetically by a certain range of columns.
417 For the purpose of this command, the region includes
418 the entire line that point is in and the entire line the mark is in.
419 The column positions of point and mark bound the range of columns to sort on.
420 A prefix argument means sort into reverse order.
422 Note that `sort-columns' rejects text that contains tabs,
423 because tabs could be split across the specified columns
424 and it doesn't know how to handle that. Also, when possible,
425 it uses the `sort' utility program, which doesn't understand tabs.
426 Use \\[untabify] to convert tabs to spaces before sorting."
429 (let (beg1 end1 col-beg1 col-end1 col-start col-end
)
430 (goto-char (min beg end
))
431 (setq col-beg1
(current-column))
434 (goto-char (max beg end
))
435 (setq col-end1
(current-column))
438 (setq col-start
(min col-beg1 col-end1
))
439 (setq col-end
(max col-beg1 col-end1
))
440 (if (search-backward "\t" beg1 t
)
441 (error "sort-columns does not work with tabs. Use M-x untabify."))
442 (if (not (eq system-type
'vax-vms
))
443 ;; Use the sort utility if we can; it is 4 times as fast.
444 (call-process-region beg1 end1
"sort" t t nil
445 (if reverse
"-rt\n" "-t\n")
446 (concat "+0." col-start
)
447 (concat "-0." col-end
))
448 ;; On VMS, use Emacs's own facilities.
451 (narrow-to-region beg1 end1
)
453 (sort-subr reverse
'forward-line
'end-of-line
454 (function (lambda () (move-to-column col-start
) nil
))
455 (function (lambda () (move-to-column col-end
) nil
)))))))))
458 (defun reverse-region (beg end
)
459 "Reverse the order of lines in a region.
460 From a program takes two point or marker arguments, BEG and END."
463 (let (mid) (setq mid end end beg beg mid
)))
465 ;; put beg at the start of a line and end and the end of one --
466 ;; the largest possible region which fits this criteria
468 (or (bolp) (forward-line 1))
471 ;; the test for bolp is for those times when end is on an empty line;
472 ;; it is probably not the case that the line should be included in the
473 ;; reversal; it isn't difficult to add it afterward.
474 (or (and (eolp) (not (bolp))) (progn (forward-line -
1) (end-of-line)))
475 (setq end
(point-marker))
476 ;; the real work. this thing cranks through memory on large regions.
480 (setq ll
(cons (buffer-substring (point) (progn (end-of-line) (point)))
482 (setq do
(/= (point) end
))
483 (delete-region beg
(if do
(1+ (point)) (point))))
485 (insert (car ll
) "\n")
491 ;;; sort.el ends here