[tw5] Request: sort selected lines in tiddlywiki edit mode

[Chuck R.]

Sometimes I have a group of lines, maybe in a table, maybe not, that I want to sort. Can we add a feature where we can sort selected lines? I often use sorted data to display things in order so it's easier for the user to find. It could be commands, author names, dates (in YYYYMMDD format), etc.

Thank you again!

[Mat]

Chuck, you write

 

so it's easier for the user to find.

- so you're really talking about "view mode", not "edit mode" then as your headline states, right?

To sort tiddler titles you can use the list widget and the various filter operators. Without knowing exactly what you're after, it's tricky to give a more precise answer.

Why is it not simply a matter of writing the lines in order to begin with?

<:-)

[Chuck R.]

No, I want to sort lines selected by the user inside the tiddler in edit mode only. It's good for making tables, lists of items, etc.

See image.

[Mat]

Ah, "the user" is you :-)

All(?) widgets and tools in TW are executed in view mode only and merely "set" in editmode. The text is not parsed until you see it in viewmode.

But, I believe it was you who asked about sortable tables. Assuming you found a solution for that, you could put the lines into a table, save-sort-copy-gotoedit-paste....

<:-)

[Mark S.]

What I do in FF/Pale Moon is to install the "It's All Text " plugin. I have mine connected to emacs. Then when I want to do advanced editing I just click on the button and get taken away to emacs. Then I can use the sorting, regular expression, etc. abilities of emacs. There are other text editors that offer sorting as well.

Mark

[Chuck R.]

Excellent suggestion. I use FF all the time. We've had trouble with Chrome in the past with some of our business apps.

Many text editors have the ability to sort selected text, so I thought TW5 might be able to add a feature to do that since I could not get the sorting tables to work by clicking on a table header.

[Jeremy Ruston]

Hi Chuck

A toolbar button to sort the selected lines is a good idea. It would need a new JavaScript  “text editor operation”, along the lines of the ones here:

https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/tree/master/core/modules/editor/operations/text

Best wishes

Jeremy.

On 21 Apr 2016, at 10:42, Chuck R. <wedding...@gmail.com> wrote:

Excellent suggestion. I use FF all the time. We've had trouble with Chrome in the past with some of our business apps.

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