Re: how to sort words in a line

[Pascal Bourguignon]

Rainer Stengele <rainer.stengele@diplan.de> writes:
> I just couldn't find a fast solution to sort a line of words:
>
> zzz aaa hhhh
>
> -->
>
> aaa hhhh zzz
>
>
> Did I miss a simple command?

AFAIK, no.

But it's rather simple a command to write:

(defun sort-words-in-lines (start end)
   (interactive "r")
   (goto-char start)
   (beginning-of-line)
   (while (< (setq start (point)) end)
      (let ((words (sort (split-string (buffer-substring start 
(line-end-position)))
                         (function string-lessp))))
        (delete-region start (line-end-position))
        (dolist (word words ) (insert word " ")))
      (beginning-of-line) (forward-line 1)))


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