Re: Looking for editor -- correction

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From: Steffan O'Sullivan
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1993 16:08

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stud30@iris1.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de (U. Seidler) writes:
>   
>> sorting:
>   
>   What my friend really was looking for was an editor that can sort
>   by COLUMNS, not by ROWS, mea culpa.
>   This means, you define a column via block operation and the editor sorts
>   the rows according to the content of the column selected. This seems to me
>   to be a much more sophisticated feature than sorting by rows.

XyWrite can do this, though you'll need to change the default sorting
condition before each sort.  That is, if you want to sort on column 12,
you'll have to tell XyWrite to sort on column 12.  If you then want to
sort on some other column, you'll have to change the default.  Not a
big deal, and if you do it often enough, you can make a macro out of
it.

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        -Steffan O'Sullivan             sos@oz.plymouth.edu

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From: sos@oz.plymouth.edu (Steffan O'Sullivan)
Subject: Re: Looking for editor -- correction
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