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1 ;;; sort.el --- commands to sort text in an Emacs buffer.
3 ;; Copyright (C) 1986, 1987, 1994, 1995 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 ;; Author: Howie Kaye
6 ;; Maintainer: FSF
7 ;; Keywords: unix
9 ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
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24 ;; Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
26 ;;; Commentary:
28 ;; This package provides the sorting facilities documented in the Emacs
29 ;; user's manual.
31 ;;; Code:
33 (defvar sort-fold-case nil
34 "*Non-nil if the buffer sort functions should ignore case.")
36 ;;;###autoload
37 (defun sort-subr (reverse nextrecfun endrecfun &optional startkeyfun endkeyfun)
38 "General text sorting routine to divide buffer into records and sort them.
39 Arguments are REVERSE NEXTRECFUN ENDRECFUN &optional STARTKEYFUN ENDKEYFUN.
41 We divide the accessible portion of the buffer into disjoint pieces
42 called sort records. A portion of each sort record (perhaps all of
43 it) is designated as the sort key. The records are rearranged in the
44 buffer in order by their sort keys. The records may or may not be
45 contiguous.
47 Usually the records are rearranged in order of ascending sort key.
48 If REVERSE is non-nil, they are rearranged in order of descending sort key.
49 The variable `sort-fold-case' determines whether alphabetic case affects
50 the sort order.
52 The next four arguments are functions to be called to move point
53 across a sort record. They will be called many times from within sort-subr.
55 NEXTRECFUN is called with point at the end of the previous record.
56 It moves point to the start of the next record.
57 It should move point to the end of the buffer if there are no more records.
58 The first record is assumed to start at the position of point when sort-subr
59 is called.
61 ENDRECFUN is called with point within the record.
62 It should move point to the end of the record.
64 STARTKEYFUN moves from the start of the record to the start of the key.
65 It may return either a non-nil value to be used as the key, or
66 else the key is the substring between the values of point after
67 STARTKEYFUN and ENDKEYFUN are called. If STARTKEYFUN is nil, the key
68 starts at the beginning of the record.
70 ENDKEYFUN moves from the start of the sort key to the end of the sort key.
71 ENDKEYFUN may be nil if STARTKEYFUN returns a value or if it would be the
72 same as ENDRECFUN."
73 ;; Heuristically try to avoid messages if sorting a small amt of text.
74 (let ((messages (> (- (point-max) (point-min)) 50000)))
75 (save-excursion
76 (if messages (message "Finding sort keys..."))
77 (let* ((sort-lists (sort-build-lists nextrecfun endrecfun
78 startkeyfun endkeyfun))
79 (old (reverse sort-lists))
80 (case-fold-search sort-fold-case))
81 (if (null sort-lists)
83 (or reverse (setq sort-lists (nreverse sort-lists)))
84 (if messages (message "Sorting records..."))
85 (setq sort-lists
86 (if (fboundp 'sortcar)
87 (sortcar sort-lists
88 (cond ((numberp (car (car sort-lists)))
89 ;; This handles both ints and floats.
90 '<)
91 ((consp (car (car sort-lists)))
92 (function
93 (lambda (a b)
94 (> 0 (compare-buffer-substrings
95 nil (car a) (cdr a)
96 nil (car b) (cdr b))))))
98 'string<)))
99 (sort sort-lists
100 (cond ((numberp (car (car sort-lists)))
101 'car-less-than-car)
102 ((consp (car (car sort-lists)))
103 (function
104 (lambda (a b)
105 (> 0 (compare-buffer-substrings
106 nil (car (car a)) (cdr (car a))
107 nil (car (car b)) (cdr (car b)))))))
109 (function
110 (lambda (a b)
111 (string< (car a) (car b)))))))))
112 (if reverse (setq sort-lists (nreverse sort-lists)))
113 (if messages (message "Reordering buffer..."))
114 (sort-reorder-buffer sort-lists old)))
115 (if messages (message "Reordering buffer... Done"))))
116 nil)
118 ;; Parse buffer into records using the arguments as Lisp expressions;
119 ;; return a list of records. Each record looks like (KEY STARTPOS . ENDPOS)
120 ;; where KEY is the sort key (a number or string),
121 ;; and STARTPOS and ENDPOS are the bounds of this record in the buffer.
123 ;; The records appear in the list lastmost first!
125 (defun sort-build-lists (nextrecfun endrecfun startkeyfun endkeyfun)
126 (let ((sort-lists ())
127 (start-rec nil)
128 done key)
129 ;; Loop over sort records.
130 ;(goto-char (point-min)) -- it is the caller's responsibility to
131 ;arrange this if necessary
132 (while (not (eobp))
133 (setq start-rec (point)) ;save record start
134 (setq done nil)
135 ;; Get key value, or move to start of key.
136 (setq key (catch 'key
137 (or (and startkeyfun (funcall startkeyfun))
138 ;; If key was not returned as value,
139 ;; move to end of key and get key from the buffer.
140 (let ((start (point)))
141 (funcall (or endkeyfun
142 (prog1 endrecfun (setq done t))))
143 (cons start (point))))))
144 ;; Move to end of this record (start of next one, or end of buffer).
145 (cond ((prog1 done (setq done nil)))
146 (endrecfun (funcall endrecfun))
147 (nextrecfun (funcall nextrecfun) (setq done t)))
148 (if key (setq sort-lists (cons
149 ;; consing optimization in case in which key
150 ;; is same as record.
151 (if (and (consp key)
152 (equal (car key) start-rec)
153 (equal (cdr key) (point)))
154 (cons key key)
155 (cons key (cons start-rec (point))))
156 sort-lists)))
157 (and (not done) nextrecfun (funcall nextrecfun)))
158 sort-lists))
160 (defun sort-reorder-buffer (sort-lists old)
161 (let ((inhibit-quit t)
162 (last (point-min))
163 (min (point-min)) (max (point-max)))
164 ;; Make sure insertions done for reordering
165 ;; do not go after any markers at the end of the sorted region,
166 ;; by inserting a space to separate them.
167 (goto-char (point-max))
168 (insert-before-markers " ")
169 (narrow-to-region min (1- (point-max)))
170 (while sort-lists
171 (goto-char (point-max))
172 (insert-buffer-substring (current-buffer)
173 last
174 (nth 1 (car old)))
175 (goto-char (point-max))
176 (insert-buffer-substring (current-buffer)
177 (nth 1 (car sort-lists))
178 (cdr (cdr (car sort-lists))))
179 (setq last (cdr (cdr (car old)))
180 sort-lists (cdr sort-lists)
181 old (cdr old)))
182 (goto-char (point-max))
183 (insert-buffer-substring (current-buffer)
184 last
185 max)
186 ;; Delete the original copy of the text.
187 (delete-region min max)
188 ;; Get rid of the separator " ".
189 (goto-char (point-max))
190 (narrow-to-region min (1+ (point)))
191 (delete-region (point) (1+ (point)))))
193 ;;;###autoload
194 (defun sort-lines (reverse beg end)
195 "Sort lines in region alphabetically; argument means descending order.
196 Called from a program, there are three arguments:
197 REVERSE (non-nil means reverse order), BEG and END (region to sort).
198 The variable `sort-fold-case' determines whether alphabetic case affects
199 the sort order."
200 (interactive "P\nr")
201 (save-excursion
202 (save-restriction
203 (narrow-to-region beg end)
204 (goto-char (point-min))
205 (sort-subr reverse 'forward-line 'end-of-line))))
207 ;;;###autoload
208 (defun sort-paragraphs (reverse beg end)
209 "Sort paragraphs in region alphabetically; argument means descending order.
210 Called from a program, there are three arguments:
211 REVERSE (non-nil means reverse order), BEG and END (region to sort).
212 The variable `sort-fold-case' determines whether alphabetic case affects
213 the sort order."
214 (interactive "P\nr")
215 (save-excursion
216 (save-restriction
217 (narrow-to-region beg end)
218 (goto-char (point-min))
219 (sort-subr reverse
220 (function
221 (lambda ()
222 (while (and (not (eobp)) (looking-at paragraph-separate))
223 (forward-line 1))))
224 'forward-paragraph))))
226 ;;;###autoload
227 (defun sort-pages (reverse beg end)
228 "Sort pages in region alphabetically; argument means descending order.
229 Called from a program, there are three arguments:
230 REVERSE (non-nil means reverse order), BEG and END (region to sort).
231 The variable `sort-fold-case' determines whether alphabetic case affects
232 the sort order."
233 (interactive "P\nr")
234 (save-excursion
235 (save-restriction
236 (narrow-to-region beg end)
237 (goto-char (point-min))
238 (sort-subr reverse
239 (function (lambda () (skip-chars-forward "\n")))
240 'forward-page))))
242 (defvar sort-fields-syntax-table nil)
243 (if sort-fields-syntax-table nil
244 (let ((table (make-syntax-table))
245 (i 0))
246 (while (< i 256)
247 (modify-syntax-entry i "w" table)
248 (setq i (1+ i)))
249 (modify-syntax-entry ?\ " " table)
250 (modify-syntax-entry ?\t " " table)
251 (modify-syntax-entry ?\n " " table)
252 (modify-syntax-entry ?\. "_" table) ; for floating pt. numbers. -wsr
253 (setq sort-fields-syntax-table table)))
255 ;;;###autoload
256 (defun sort-numeric-fields (field beg end)
257 "Sort lines in region numerically by the ARGth field of each line.
258 Fields are separated by whitespace and numbered from 1 up.
259 Specified field must contain a number in each line of the region.
260 With a negative arg, sorts by the ARGth field counted from the right.
261 Called from a program, there are three arguments:
262 FIELD, BEG and END. BEG and END specify region to sort."
263 (interactive "p\nr")
264 (sort-fields-1 field beg end
265 (function (lambda ()
266 (sort-skip-fields field)
267 (string-to-number
268 (buffer-substring
269 (point)
270 (save-excursion
271 ;; This is just wrong! Even without floats...
272 ;; (skip-chars-forward "[0-9]")
273 (forward-sexp 1)
274 (point))))))
275 nil))
277 ;;;;;###autoload
278 ;;(defun sort-float-fields (field beg end)
279 ;; "Sort lines in region numerically by the ARGth field of each line.
280 ;;Fields are separated by whitespace and numbered from 1 up. Specified field
281 ;;must contain a floating point number in each line of the region. With a
282 ;;negative arg, sorts by the ARGth field counted from the right. Called from a
283 ;;program, there are three arguments: FIELD, BEG and END. BEG and END specify
284 ;;region to sort."
285 ;; (interactive "p\nr")
286 ;; (sort-fields-1 field beg end
287 ;; (function (lambda ()
288 ;; (sort-skip-fields field)
289 ;; (string-to-number
290 ;; (buffer-substring
291 ;; (point)
292 ;; (save-excursion
293 ;; (re-search-forward
294 ;; "[+-]?[0-9]*\.?[0-9]*\\([eE][+-]?[0-9]+\\)?")
295 ;; (point))))))
296 ;; nil))
298 ;;;###autoload
299 (defun sort-fields (field beg end)
300 "Sort lines in region lexicographically by the ARGth field of each line.
301 Fields are separated by whitespace and numbered from 1 up.
302 With a negative arg, sorts by the ARGth field counted from the right.
303 Called from a program, there are three arguments:
304 FIELD, BEG and END. BEG and END specify region to sort.
305 The variable `sort-fold-case' determines whether alphabetic case affects
306 the sort order."
307 (interactive "p\nr")
308 (sort-fields-1 field beg end
309 (function (lambda ()
310 (sort-skip-fields field)
311 nil))
312 (function (lambda () (skip-chars-forward "^ \t\n")))))
314 (defun sort-fields-1 (field beg end startkeyfun endkeyfun)
315 (let ((tbl (syntax-table)))
316 (if (zerop field) (setq field 1))
317 (unwind-protect
318 (save-excursion
319 (save-restriction
320 (narrow-to-region beg end)
321 (goto-char (point-min))
322 (set-syntax-table sort-fields-syntax-table)
323 (sort-subr nil
324 'forward-line 'end-of-line
325 startkeyfun endkeyfun)))
326 (set-syntax-table tbl))))
328 ;; Position at the beginning of field N on the current line,
329 ;; assuming point is initially at the beginning of the line.
330 (defun sort-skip-fields (n)
331 (if (> n 0)
332 ;; Skip across N - 1 fields.
333 (let ((i (1- n)))
334 (while (> i 0)
335 (skip-chars-forward " \t")
336 (skip-chars-forward "^ \t\n")
337 (setq i (1- i)))
338 (skip-chars-forward " \t")
339 (if (eolp)
340 (error "Line has too few fields: %s"
341 (buffer-substring
342 (save-excursion (beginning-of-line) (point))
343 (save-excursion (end-of-line) (point))))))
344 (end-of-line)
345 ;; Skip back across - N - 1 fields.
346 (let ((i (1- (- n))))
347 (while (> i 0)
348 (skip-chars-backward " \t")
349 (skip-chars-backward "^ \t\n")
350 (setq i (1- i)))
351 (skip-chars-backward " \t"))
352 (if (bolp)
353 (error "Line has too few fields: %s"
354 (buffer-substring
355 (save-excursion (beginning-of-line) (point))
356 (save-excursion (end-of-line) (point)))))
357 ;; Position at the front of the field
358 ;; even if moving backwards.
359 (skip-chars-backward "^ \t\n")))
361 (defvar sort-regexp-fields-regexp)
362 (defvar sort-regexp-record-end)
364 ;; Move to the beginning of the next match for record-regexp,
365 ;; and set sort-regexp-record-end to the end of that match.
366 ;; If the next match is empty and does not advance point,
367 ;; skip one character and try again.
368 (defun sort-regexp-fields-next-record ()
369 (let ((oldpos (point)))
370 (and (re-search-forward sort-regexp-fields-regexp nil 'move)
371 (setq sort-regexp-record-end (match-end 0))
372 (if (= sort-regexp-record-end oldpos)
373 (progn
374 (forward-char 1)
375 (re-search-forward sort-regexp-fields-regexp nil 'move)
376 (setq sort-regexp-record-end (match-end 0)))
378 (goto-char (match-beginning 0)))))
380 ;;;###autoload
381 (defun sort-regexp-fields (reverse record-regexp key-regexp beg end)
382 "Sort the region lexicographically as specified by RECORD-REGEXP and KEY.
383 RECORD-REGEXP specifies the textual units which should be sorted.
384 For example, to sort lines RECORD-REGEXP would be \"^.*$\"
385 KEY specifies the part of each record (ie each match for RECORD-REGEXP)
386 is to be used for sorting.
387 If it is \"\\\\digit\" then the digit'th \"\\\\(...\\\\)\" match field from
388 RECORD-REGEXP is used.
389 If it is \"\\\\&\" then the whole record is used.
390 Otherwise, it is a regular-expression for which to search within the record.
391 If a match for KEY is not found within a record then that record is ignored.
393 With a negative prefix arg sorts in reverse order.
395 The variable `sort-fold-case' determines whether alphabetic case affects
396 the sort order.
398 For example: to sort lines in the region by the first word on each line
399 starting with the letter \"f\",
400 RECORD-REGEXP would be \"^.*$\" and KEY would be \"\\\\=\\<f\\\\w*\\\\>\""
401 ;; using negative prefix arg to mean "reverse" is now inconsistent with
402 ;; other sort-.*fields functions but then again this was before, since it
403 ;; didn't use the magnitude of the arg to specify anything.
404 (interactive "P\nsRegexp specifying records to sort:
405 sRegexp specifying key within record: \nr")
406 (cond ((or (equal key-regexp "") (equal key-regexp "\\&"))
407 (setq key-regexp 0))
408 ((string-match "\\`\\\\[1-9]\\'" key-regexp)
409 (setq key-regexp (- (aref key-regexp 1) ?0))))
410 (save-excursion
411 (save-restriction
412 (narrow-to-region beg end)
413 (goto-char (point-min))
414 (let (sort-regexp-record-end
415 (sort-regexp-fields-regexp record-regexp))
416 (re-search-forward sort-regexp-fields-regexp)
417 (setq sort-regexp-record-end (point))
418 (goto-char (match-beginning 0))
419 (sort-subr reverse
420 'sort-regexp-fields-next-record
421 (function (lambda ()
422 (goto-char sort-regexp-record-end)))
423 (function (lambda ()
424 (let ((n 0))
425 (cond ((numberp key-regexp)
426 (setq n key-regexp))
427 ((re-search-forward
428 key-regexp sort-regexp-record-end t)
429 (setq n 0))
430 (t (throw 'key nil)))
431 (condition-case ()
432 (cons (match-beginning n)
433 (match-end n))
434 ;; if there was no such register
435 (error (throw 'key nil)))))))))))
438 (defvar sort-columns-subprocess t)
440 ;;;###autoload
441 (defun sort-columns (reverse &optional beg end)
442 "Sort lines in region alphabetically by a certain range of columns.
443 For the purpose of this command, the region includes
444 the entire line that point is in and the entire line the mark is in.
445 The column positions of point and mark bound the range of columns to sort on.
446 A prefix argument means sort into reverse order.
447 The variable `sort-fold-case' determines whether alphabetic case affects
448 the sort order.
450 Note that `sort-columns' rejects text that contains tabs,
451 because tabs could be split across the specified columns
452 and it doesn't know how to handle that. Also, when possible,
453 it uses the `sort' utility program, which doesn't understand tabs.
454 Use \\[untabify] to convert tabs to spaces before sorting."
455 (interactive "P\nr")
456 (save-excursion
457 (let (beg1 end1 col-beg1 col-end1 col-start col-end)
458 (goto-char (min beg end))
459 (setq col-beg1 (current-column))
460 (beginning-of-line)
461 (setq beg1 (point))
462 (goto-char (max beg end))
463 (setq col-end1 (current-column))
464 (forward-line)
465 (setq end1 (point))
466 (setq col-start (min col-beg1 col-end1))
467 (setq col-end (max col-beg1 col-end1))
468 (if (search-backward "\t" beg1 t)
469 (error "sort-columns does not work with tabs. Use M-x untabify."))
470 (if (not (or (eq system-type 'vax-vms)
471 (text-properties-at beg1)
472 (< (next-property-change beg1 nil end1) end1)))
473 ;; Use the sort utility if we can; it is 4 times as fast.
474 ;; Do not use it if there are any properties in the region,
475 ;; since the sort utility would lose the properties.
476 (call-process-region beg1 end1 "sort" t t nil
477 (if reverse "-rt\n" "-t\n")
478 (concat "+0." col-start)
479 (concat "-0." col-end))
480 ;; On VMS, use Emacs's own facilities.
481 (save-excursion
482 (save-restriction
483 (narrow-to-region beg1 end1)
484 (goto-char beg1)
485 (sort-subr reverse 'forward-line 'end-of-line
486 (function (lambda () (move-to-column col-start) nil))
487 (function (lambda () (move-to-column col-end) nil)))))))))
489 ;;;###autoload
490 (defun reverse-region (beg end)
491 "Reverse the order of lines in a region.
492 From a program takes two point or marker arguments, BEG and END."
493 (interactive "r")
494 (if (> beg end)
495 (let (mid) (setq mid end end beg beg mid)))
496 (save-excursion
497 ;; put beg at the start of a line and end and the end of one --
498 ;; the largest possible region which fits this criteria
499 (goto-char beg)
500 (or (bolp) (forward-line 1))
501 (setq beg (point))
502 (goto-char end)
503 ;; the test for bolp is for those times when end is on an empty line;
504 ;; it is probably not the case that the line should be included in the
505 ;; reversal; it isn't difficult to add it afterward.
506 (or (and (eolp) (not (bolp))) (progn (forward-line -1) (end-of-line)))
507 (setq end (point-marker))
508 ;; the real work. this thing cranks through memory on large regions.
509 (let (ll (do t))
510 (while do
511 (goto-char beg)
512 (setq ll (cons (buffer-substring (point) (progn (end-of-line) (point)))
513 ll))
514 (setq do (/= (point) end))
515 (delete-region beg (if do (1+ (point)) (point))))
516 (while (cdr ll)
517 (insert (car ll) "\n")
518 (setq ll (cdr ll)))
519 (insert (car ll)))))
521 (provide 'sort)
523 ;;; sort.el ends here