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Re: Sorting by author name first, then by year


From: Michael Heerdegen
Subject: Re: Sorting by author name first, then by year
Date: Mon, 24 May 2021 20:04:22 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:

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

The data in the original post is multiline, so I think `sort-fields'
can't be used.

Instead it looks like it would involve parsing the records to extract
the fields that sorting should respect, and then compose a sorting
predicate based on these fields.

Michael.




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