How to move #tags up to line above and sort doc by tags?

[David J]

I have a long text that I tagged, I'd like to move those tags up to the end of the last line they are under:

Original:

"What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself — and thus make yourself indispensable." - André Gide
#Curiosity


"It always makes me proud to love the world somehow- hate’s so easy compared." - Jack Kerouac

#Love

"Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer." - William S. Burroughs

#Questioning #Questions

How I'm trying to get it:

"What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself — and thus make yourself indispensable." - André Gide #Curiosity


"It always makes me proud to love the world somehow- hate’s so easy compared." - Jack Kerouac #Love

"Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer." - William S. Burroughs  #Questioning #Questions

Then is it possible to sort the doc by specific #tag names? I've read through the manual, but this is way out of my area. Thanks

[Fletcher Sandbeck]

If the tags always start with hash marks then you can find "\s+#" and replace with " #". Basically you're just replacing whatever white space appears before each # with a single space.

For sorting you can look at Sort Lines... on the Edit menu. Sort with a pattern like "#.+" with Entire Match selected. That will sort by the tags on each line. Make sure that each paragraph is actually a single line. If you have stray returns in the text then those lines are going to be broken up.

As always, particularly with operations like global search replaces and sorting, make sure you work on a copy of your data.

[fletcher]

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[Christopher Stone]

On Aug 19, 2021, at 12:20, David J <future...@gmail.com> wrote:

I have a long text that I tagged, I'd like to move those tags up to the end of the last line they are under:

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Hey David,

I'm thinking something like this:

Find:

\s+((?:#\w+\h*)+)

Replace:

“ \1”

** Without the quotes.

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Best Regards,

Chris

[David J]

Hi Fletcher and Chris.

I tried both your methods and they both worked for placing the tags. Then I used the pattern to sort lines and that worked as well. That is just wild and awesome!

I'd have sat here a year sorting that out myself. Thank you both.