Sort lines, then tag, then unsort
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Julius Hamilton
Sep 14, 2021, 7:58:02 AM9/14/21
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I would like to sort lines in a text document and then tag them, and then revert the file to its original order.
First of all, is there a way to tag a line, so that lines with a given tag can be quickly referred to, but the tag is not in the actual text?
Secondly, I noticed with my sort command ":sort \^[A-Z].*[^\.]$\ r" (sort all lines beginning with a capital letter and not ending in a period) it sends the matches in alphabetical order to the bottom of the file. Is there a way to specify a second-order sort by which all the matches are sub-sorted, rather than the default alphabetical? And, is there a way to send them to the top of the document rather than the bottom?
Thanks very much,
Julius
Christian Brabandt
Sep 14, 2021, 8:17:57 AM9/14/21
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On Di, 14 Sep 2021, Julius Hamilton wrote:
> I would like to sort lines in a text document and then tag them, and then revert the file to its original order.
>
> First of all, is there a way to tag a line, so that lines with a given tag can be quickly referred to, but the tag is not in the actual text?
Have a look at :h text-prop-intro
Best,
Christian
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Sep 14, 2021, 8:52:33 AM9/14/21
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Interesting, I did not know about text properties although it only seems marginally useful:
```When a buffer is unloaded, all the text properties are gone. There is no way
to store the properties in a file. You can only re-create them```
What would it take to save them to a shadow file?
rwmit...@gmail.com
Sep 14, 2021, 8:55:34 AM9/14/21
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To be fair, I was thinking of ad-hoc creating properties, not using a script parsing a file.
Paul
Sep 19, 2021, 10:29:26 AM9/19/21
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On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 01:57:34PM +0200, Julius Hamilton wrote:
>First of all, is there a way to tag a line, so that lines with a given tag
>can be quickly referred to, but the tag is not in the actual text?
Will marks suffice?
>First of all, is there a way to tag a line, so that lines with a given tag
>can be quickly referred to, but the tag is not in the actual text?
王子陌
Sep 21, 2021, 3:02:38 AM9/21/21
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I think the plugin you need is https://github.com/kshenoy/vim-signature
Christian Brabandt <cbl...@256bit.org> 于2021年9月14日周二 下午8:17写道：
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Julius Hamilton
Oct 4, 2021, 5:52:44 AM10/4/21
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On Sun 19. Sep 2021 at 16:29, 'Paul' via vim_use <vim...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
Will marks suffice?
Thanks for your message.
Not sure, can you apply the same mark, i.e. “h”, to multiple lines? I don’t think so but I’m not sure.
Paul
Oct 5, 2021, 6:02:15 AM10/5/21
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Steve Litt
Oct 10, 2021, 4:25:32 AM10/10/21
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Julius Hamilton said on Tue, 14 Sep 2021 13:57:34 +0200
I think you're using the wrong tool. Also, you haven't said why you
need Vim tags on lines. If I'm not mistaken, there are only a limited
number of tags, and if you have that few lines, you're better off doing
this all manually.
Anyway, the tool I'd use is AWK. Not one liners, but real AWK programs.
My first step would be to put every about 3 underscores followed by
the line number at the end of every line, but add one million to
the line number so all line numbers have the same length. This is
trivial in AWK. Now you have a record of the original sort order.
Next, I'd perform whatever kind of two stage or branched sorting you
need to do, once again with AWK.
Next, do whatever you need to do in order to simulate Vim tags. Because
you haven't told us what the tags are used for, I can't comment further.
Next, do whatever you need to do with those simulated tags.
Finally, within Vim, move the ending line numbers to the front of each
line, and re-sort again, to put it in the original order. Finally, use
Vim to get rid of those line numbers.
SteveT
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need Vim tags on lines. If I'm not mistaken, there are only a limited
number of tags, and if you have that few lines, you're better off doing
this all manually.
Anyway, the tool I'd use is AWK. Not one liners, but real AWK programs.
My first step would be to put every about 3 underscores followed by
the line number at the end of every line, but add one million to
the line number so all line numbers have the same length. This is
trivial in AWK. Now you have a record of the original sort order.
Next, I'd perform whatever kind of two stage or branched sorting you
need to do, once again with AWK.
Next, do whatever you need to do in order to simulate Vim tags. Because
you haven't told us what the tags are used for, I can't comment further.
Next, do whatever you need to do with those simulated tags.
Finally, within Vim, move the ending line numbers to the front of each
line, and re-sort again, to put it in the original order. Finally, use
Vim to get rid of those line numbers.
SteveT
Steve Litt
Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful
Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques
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