Re: Sorting on compound keys?

[Tim Landscheidt]

Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de> wrote:

> you are right. It must not be done inside sort-subr, but on the top of it.

> BTW as sort-subr takes whitespace as field-delimiter, there
> is no way to get +A considered as two fields. Beside this
> limitation, code below should provide multiple-fields
> sorting.
> [...]

sort-subr allows arbitrary field definitions (as long as
they are literal, continuous parts of the buffer), but
Mark's article reminded me that not only the effect your
sort-multiple-fields has can be achieved with multiple calls
to sort-fields as well, but ...