Re: sort - specifying sort fields/keys.

[cga2000]

On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 04:37:46PM EDT, Bob Proulx wrote:
> cga2000 wrote:
> > Bob Proulx wrote:

[..]

> It is a tragedy that the two largest and most active free software
> communities are on opposing sides of this issue.

I researched this further and found that:

1. There is a nicely structured version of the gnu screen manual in
   texinfo format on my debian system. I mean since it's "gnu screen"
   there had to be an info version of the manual.

2. The texinfo coreutils package is also available on my debian "etch"
   system .. and that includes proper documentation of the sort utility
   
   So you only need to type:

   $ info coreutils sort

   .. rather than,

   $ info sort 

   .. as "man sort" curiously recommends .. and there you have it, the
   compleat gnu sort manual!

   No idea if this was part of my base install, or I fished it out of
   some non-debian repository and forgot all about it.

3. There is a rather nice info browser called "pinfo" that uses color
   (only 8/16 of them unfortunately -- yes, I like "pretty" and text
   displayed in cyan, magenta .. etc. is not really my favorite) .. but
   more importantly pinfo has default keyboard keys that match my vimmer
   habits i.e. you navigate the links to the different nodes via "hjkl"
   and <Enter> so I can focus on reading the doc rather than navigation
   aspects.  Also,  hitting <Enter> on a www/mail link launches my
   browser or mailer automatically .. neat!

A bit OT, that.. but I thought worth the few extra lines.