Re: Sorting by author name first, then by year

[Emanuel Berg]

Michael Heerdegen wrote:

>> I have a texinfo file with blocks as below, sorted first by
>> year, then by author surname using strings starting with
>> "bibl-". The contents of each block are embedded within
>> "@ifset" and "@end ifset".
>>
>> Now I want to sort them, first according to surname, then
>> by year, the earlier year put first.
>>
>> So I am looking to make a function that could do it.
>
> I think `sort-subr' is the function to use.

Or `sort-fields' depending on how the data look like.

(defun sort-second-field (beg end)
  (interactive "r")
  (sort-fields 2 beg end) )

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