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Date:Mon Dec 21 00:16:58 1995 
Subject:Sort Marked Range -- a generalisation of ved_smr 
From:A . Sloman 
Volume-ID:951221.01 

It is often useful to sort on the basis of a sub-field of each line
of text, which ved_smr cannot do. I've produced a draft library
(or rather revised a simpler version) LIB VED_SORTMR which provides
a lot more options.

    ENTER sortmr [ -i | -n ] [-r] [ -c<char> ] [ N ]

    A utility for sorting the marked range in the buffer using the N'th
    field for sorting, with or without mapping upper into lower case (-i),
    with the option to sort a field on numerical value (-n), to sort in
    reverse order (-r), and to use any character as field
    separator(-c<char>).

The library file is at
    ftp://ftp.cs.bham.ac.uk/pub/dist/poplog/auto/ved_sortmr.p
the help file at
    ftp://ftp.cs.bham.ac.uk/pub/dist/poplog/help/ved_sortmr

Of course, you always have the option to pipe the marked range through
the Unix sort utility.

Aaron