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1 ;;; sort.el --- commands to sort text in an Emacs buffer
2
3 ;; Copyright (C) 1986, 1987, 1994, 1995 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4
5 ;; Author: Howie Kaye
6 ;; Maintainer: FSF
7 ;; Keywords: unix
8
9 ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
10
11 ;; GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
12 ;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
13 ;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
14 ;; any later version.
15
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20
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23 ;; Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
24 ;; Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
25
26 ;;; Commentary:
27
28 ;; This package provides the sorting facilities documented in the Emacs
29 ;; user's manual.
30
31 ;;; Code:
32
33 (defgroup sort nil
34 "Commands to sort text in an Emacs buffer."
35 :group 'data)
36
37 (defcustom sort-fold-case nil
38 "*Non-nil if the buffer sort functions should ignore case."
39 :group 'sort
40 :type 'boolean)
41
42 ;;;###autoload
43 (defun sort-subr (reverse nextrecfun endrecfun &optional startkeyfun endkeyfun)
44 "General text sorting routine to divide buffer into records and sort them.
45 Arguments are REVERSE NEXTRECFUN ENDRECFUN &optional STARTKEYFUN ENDKEYFUN.
46
47 We divide the accessible portion of the buffer into disjoint pieces
48 called sort records. A portion of each sort record (perhaps all of
49 it) is designated as the sort key. The records are rearranged in the
50 buffer in order by their sort keys. The records may or may not be
51 contiguous.
52
53 Usually the records are rearranged in order of ascending sort key.
54 If REVERSE is non-nil, they are rearranged in order of descending sort key.
55 The variable `sort-fold-case' determines whether alphabetic case affects
56 the sort order.
57
58 The next four arguments are functions to be called to move point
59 across a sort record. They will be called many times from within sort-subr.
60
61 NEXTRECFUN is called with point at the end of the previous record.
62 It moves point to the start of the next record.
63 It should move point to the end of the buffer if there are no more records.
64 The first record is assumed to start at the position of point when sort-subr
65 is called.
66
67 ENDRECFUN is called with point within the record.
68 It should move point to the end of the record.
69
70 STARTKEYFUN moves from the start of the record to the start of the key.
71 It may return either a non-nil value to be used as the key, or
72 else the key is the substring between the values of point after
73 STARTKEYFUN and ENDKEYFUN are called. If STARTKEYFUN is nil, the key
74 starts at the beginning of the record.
75
76 ENDKEYFUN moves from the start of the sort key to the end of the sort key.
77 ENDKEYFUN may be nil if STARTKEYFUN returns a value or if it would be the
78 same as ENDRECFUN."
79 ;; Heuristically try to avoid messages if sorting a small amt of text.
80 (let ((messages (> (- (point-max) (point-min)) 50000)))
81 (save-excursion
82 (if messages (message "Finding sort keys..."))
83 (let* ((sort-lists (sort-build-lists nextrecfun endrecfun
84 startkeyfun endkeyfun))
85 (old (reverse sort-lists))
86 (case-fold-search sort-fold-case))
87 (if (null sort-lists)
88 ()
89 (or reverse (setq sort-lists (nreverse sort-lists)))
90 (if messages (message "Sorting records..."))
91 (setq sort-lists
92 (if (fboundp 'sortcar)
93 (sortcar sort-lists
94 (cond ((numberp (car (car sort-lists)))
95 ;; This handles both ints and floats.
96 '<)
97 ((consp (car (car sort-lists)))
98 (function
99 (lambda (a b)
100 (> 0 (compare-buffer-substrings
101 nil (car a) (cdr a)
102 nil (car b) (cdr b))))))
103 (t
104 'string<)))
105 (sort sort-lists
106 (cond ((numberp (car (car sort-lists)))
107 'car-less-than-car)
108 ((consp (car (car sort-lists)))
109 (function
110 (lambda (a b)
111 (> 0 (compare-buffer-substrings
112 nil (car (car a)) (cdr (car a))
113 nil (car (car b)) (cdr (car b)))))))
114 (t
115 (function
116 (lambda (a b)
117 (string< (car a) (car b)))))))))
118 (if reverse (setq sort-lists (nreverse sort-lists)))
119 (if messages (message "Reordering buffer..."))
120 (sort-reorder-buffer sort-lists old)))
121 (if messages (message "Reordering buffer... Done"))))
122 nil)
123
124 ;; Parse buffer into records using the arguments as Lisp expressions;
125 ;; return a list of records. Each record looks like (KEY STARTPOS . ENDPOS)
126 ;; where KEY is the sort key (a number or string),
127 ;; and STARTPOS and ENDPOS are the bounds of this record in the buffer.
128
129 ;; The records appear in the list lastmost first!
130
131 (defun sort-build-lists (nextrecfun endrecfun startkeyfun endkeyfun)
132 (let ((sort-lists ())
133 (start-rec nil)
134 done key)
135 ;; Loop over sort records.
136 ;(goto-char (point-min)) -- it is the caller's responsibility to
137 ;arrange this if necessary
138 (while (not (eobp))
139 (setq start-rec (point)) ;save record start
140 (setq done nil)
141 ;; Get key value, or move to start of key.
142 (setq key (catch 'key
143 (or (and startkeyfun (funcall startkeyfun))
144 ;; If key was not returned as value,
145 ;; move to end of key and get key from the buffer.
146 (let ((start (point)))
147 (funcall (or endkeyfun
148 (prog1 endrecfun (setq done t))))
149 (cons start (point))))))
150 ;; Move to end of this record (start of next one, or end of buffer).
151 (cond ((prog1 done (setq done nil)))
152 (endrecfun (funcall endrecfun))
153 (nextrecfun (funcall nextrecfun) (setq done t)))
154 (if key (setq sort-lists (cons
155 ;; consing optimization in case in which key
156 ;; is same as record.
157 (if (and (consp key)
158 (equal (car key) start-rec)
159 (equal (cdr key) (point)))
160 (cons key key)
161 (cons key (cons start-rec (point))))
162 sort-lists)))
163 (and (not done) nextrecfun (funcall nextrecfun)))
164 sort-lists))
165
166 (defun sort-reorder-buffer (sort-lists old)
167 (let ((last (point-min))
168 (min (point-min)) (max (point-max))
169 (old-buffer (current-buffer))
170 temp-buffer)
171 (with-temp-buffer
172 ;; Record the temporary buffer.
173 (setq temp-buffer (current-buffer))
174
175 ;; Copy the sorted text into the temporary buffer.
176 (while sort-lists
177 (goto-char (point-max))
178 (insert-buffer-substring old-buffer
179 last
180 (nth 1 (car old)))
181 (goto-char (point-max))
182 (insert-buffer-substring old-buffer
183 (nth 1 (car sort-lists))
184 (cdr (cdr (car sort-lists))))
185 (setq last (cdr (cdr (car old)))
186 sort-lists (cdr sort-lists)
187 old (cdr old)))
188 (goto-char (point-max))
189 (insert-buffer-substring old-buffer last max)
190
191 ;; Copy the reordered text from the temporary buffer
192 ;; to the buffer we sorted (OLD-BUFFER).
193 (set-buffer old-buffer)
194 (let ((inhibit-quit t))
195 ;; Make sure insertions done for reordering
196 ;; do not go after any markers at the end of the sorted region,
197 ;; by inserting a space to separate them.
198 (goto-char max)
199 (insert-before-markers " ")
200 ;; Delete the original copy of the text.
201 (delete-region min max)
202 ;; Now replace the separator " " with the sorted text.
203 (goto-char (point-max))
204 (insert-buffer-substring temp-buffer)
205 (delete-region min (1+ min))))))
206
207 ;;;###autoload
208 (defun sort-lines (reverse beg end)
209 "Sort lines in region alphabetically; argument means descending order.
210 Called from a program, there are three arguments:
211 REVERSE (non-nil means reverse order), BEG and END (region to sort).
212 The variable `sort-fold-case' determines whether alphabetic case affects
213 the sort order."
214 (interactive "P\nr")
215 (save-excursion
216 (save-restriction
217 (narrow-to-region beg end)
218 (goto-char (point-min))
219 (sort-subr reverse 'forward-line 'end-of-line))))
220
221 ;;;###autoload
222 (defun sort-paragraphs (reverse beg end)
223 "Sort paragraphs in region alphabetically; argument means descending order.
224 Called from a program, there are three arguments:
225 REVERSE (non-nil means reverse order), BEG and END (region to sort).
226 The variable `sort-fold-case' determines whether alphabetic case affects
227 the sort order."
228 (interactive "P\nr")
229 (save-excursion
230 (save-restriction
231 (narrow-to-region beg end)
232 (goto-char (point-min))
233 (sort-subr reverse
234 (function
235 (lambda ()
236 (while (and (not (eobp)) (looking-at paragraph-separate))
237 (forward-line 1))))
238 'forward-paragraph))))
239
240 ;;;###autoload
241 (defun sort-pages (reverse beg end)
242 "Sort pages in region alphabetically; argument means descending order.
243 Called from a program, there are three arguments:
244 REVERSE (non-nil means reverse order), BEG and END (region to sort).
245 The variable `sort-fold-case' determines whether alphabetic case affects
246 the sort order."
247 (interactive "P\nr")
248 (save-excursion
249 (save-restriction
250 (narrow-to-region beg end)
251 (goto-char (point-min))
252 (sort-subr reverse
253 (function (lambda () (skip-chars-forward "\n")))
254 'forward-page))))
255 \f
256 (defvar sort-fields-syntax-table nil)
257 (if sort-fields-syntax-table nil
258 (let ((table (make-syntax-table))
259 (i 0))
260 (while (< i 256)
261 (modify-syntax-entry i "w" table)
262 (setq i (1+ i)))
263 (modify-syntax-entry ?\ " " table)
264 (modify-syntax-entry ?\t " " table)
265 (modify-syntax-entry ?\n " " table)
266 (modify-syntax-entry ?\. "_" table) ; for floating pt. numbers. -wsr
267 (setq sort-fields-syntax-table table)))
268
269 (defcustom sort-numeric-base 10
270 "*The default base used by `sort-numeric-fields'."
271 :group 'sort
272 :type 'integer)
273
274 ;;;###autoload
275 (defun sort-numeric-fields (field beg end)
276 "Sort lines in region numerically by the ARGth field of each line.
277 Fields are separated by whitespace and numbered from 1 up.
278 Specified field must contain a number in each line of the region,
279 which may begin with \"0x\" or \"0\" for hexadecimal and octal values.
280 Otherwise, the number is interpreted according to sort-numeric-base.
281 With a negative arg, sorts by the ARGth field counted from the right.
282 Called from a program, there are three arguments:
283 FIELD, BEG and END. BEG and END specify region to sort."
284 (interactive "p\nr")
285 (sort-fields-1 field beg end
286 (lambda ()
287 (sort-skip-fields field)
288 (let* ((case-fold-search t)
289 (base
290 (if (looking-at "\\(0x\\)[0-9a-f]\\|\\(0\\)[0-7]")
291 (cond ((match-beginning 1)
292 (goto-char (match-end 1))
293 16)
294 ((match-beginning 2)
295 (goto-char (match-end 2))
296 8)
297 (t nil)))))
298 (string-to-number (buffer-substring (point)
299 (save-excursion
300 (forward-sexp 1)
301 (point)))
302 (or base sort-numeric-base))))
303 nil))
304
305 ;;;;;###autoload
306 ;;(defun sort-float-fields (field beg end)
307 ;; "Sort lines in region numerically by the ARGth field of each line.
308 ;;Fields are separated by whitespace and numbered from 1 up. Specified field
309 ;;must contain a floating point number in each line of the region. With a
310 ;;negative arg, sorts by the ARGth field counted from the right. Called from a
311 ;;program, there are three arguments: FIELD, BEG and END. BEG and END specify
312 ;;region to sort."
313 ;; (interactive "p\nr")
314 ;; (sort-fields-1 field beg end
315 ;; (function (lambda ()
316 ;; (sort-skip-fields field)
317 ;; (string-to-number
318 ;; (buffer-substring
319 ;; (point)
320 ;; (save-excursion
321 ;; (re-search-forward
322 ;; "[+-]?[0-9]*\.?[0-9]*\\([eE][+-]?[0-9]+\\)?")
323 ;; (point))))))
324 ;; nil))
325
326 ;;;###autoload
327 (defun sort-fields (field beg end)
328 "Sort lines in region lexicographically by the ARGth field of each line.
329 Fields are separated by whitespace and numbered from 1 up.
330 With a negative arg, sorts by the ARGth field counted from the right.
331 Called from a program, there are three arguments:
332 FIELD, BEG and END. BEG and END specify region to sort.
333 The variable `sort-fold-case' determines whether alphabetic case affects
334 the sort order."
335 (interactive "p\nr")
336 (sort-fields-1 field beg end
337 (function (lambda ()
338 (sort-skip-fields field)
339 nil))
340 (function (lambda () (skip-chars-forward "^ \t\n")))))
341
342 (defun sort-fields-1 (field beg end startkeyfun endkeyfun)
343 (let ((tbl (syntax-table)))
344 (if (zerop field) (setq field 1))
345 (unwind-protect
346 (save-excursion
347 (save-restriction
348 (narrow-to-region beg end)
349 (goto-char (point-min))
350 (set-syntax-table sort-fields-syntax-table)
351 (sort-subr nil
352 'forward-line 'end-of-line
353 startkeyfun endkeyfun)))
354 (set-syntax-table tbl))))
355
356 ;; Position at the beginning of field N on the current line,
357 ;; assuming point is initially at the beginning of the line.
358 (defun sort-skip-fields (n)
359 (if (> n 0)
360 ;; Skip across N - 1 fields.
361 (let ((i (1- n)))
362 (while (> i 0)
363 (skip-chars-forward " \t")
364 (skip-chars-forward "^ \t\n")
365 (setq i (1- i)))
366 (skip-chars-forward " \t")
367 (if (eolp)
368 (error "Line has too few fields: %s"
369 (buffer-substring
370 (save-excursion (beginning-of-line) (point))
371 (save-excursion (end-of-line) (point))))))
372 (end-of-line)
373 ;; Skip back across - N - 1 fields.
374 (let ((i (1- (- n))))
375 (while (> i 0)
376 (skip-chars-backward " \t")
377 (skip-chars-backward "^ \t\n")
378 (setq i (1- i)))
379 (skip-chars-backward " \t"))
380 (if (bolp)
381 (error "Line has too few fields: %s"
382 (buffer-substring
383 (save-excursion (beginning-of-line) (point))
384 (save-excursion (end-of-line) (point)))))
385 ;; Position at the front of the field
386 ;; even if moving backwards.
387 (skip-chars-backward "^ \t\n")))
388 \f
389 (defvar sort-regexp-fields-regexp)
390 (defvar sort-regexp-record-end)
391
392 ;; Move to the beginning of the next match for record-regexp,
393 ;; and set sort-regexp-record-end to the end of that match.
394 ;; If the next match is empty and does not advance point,
395 ;; skip one character and try again.
396 (defun sort-regexp-fields-next-record ()
397 (let ((oldpos (point)))
398 (and (re-search-forward sort-regexp-fields-regexp nil 'move)
399 (setq sort-regexp-record-end (match-end 0))
400 (if (= sort-regexp-record-end oldpos)
401 (progn
402 (forward-char 1)
403 (re-search-forward sort-regexp-fields-regexp nil 'move)
404 (setq sort-regexp-record-end (match-end 0)))
405 t)
406 (goto-char (match-beginning 0)))))
407
408 ;;;###autoload
409 (defun sort-regexp-fields (reverse record-regexp key-regexp beg end)
410 "Sort the region lexicographically as specified by RECORD-REGEXP and KEY.
411 RECORD-REGEXP specifies the textual units which should be sorted.
412 For example, to sort lines RECORD-REGEXP would be \"^.*$\"
413 KEY specifies the part of each record (ie each match for RECORD-REGEXP)
414 is to be used for sorting.
415 If it is \"\\\\digit\" then the digit'th \"\\\\(...\\\\)\" match field from
416 RECORD-REGEXP is used.
417 If it is \"\\\\&\" then the whole record is used.
418 Otherwise, it is a regular-expression for which to search within the record.
419 If a match for KEY is not found within a record then that record is ignored.
420
421 With a negative prefix arg sorts in reverse order.
422
423 The variable `sort-fold-case' determines whether alphabetic case affects
424 the sort order.
425
426 For example: to sort lines in the region by the first word on each line
427 starting with the letter \"f\",
428 RECORD-REGEXP would be \"^.*$\" and KEY would be \"\\\\=\\<f\\\\w*\\\\>\""
429 ;; using negative prefix arg to mean "reverse" is now inconsistent with
430 ;; other sort-.*fields functions but then again this was before, since it
431 ;; didn't use the magnitude of the arg to specify anything.
432 (interactive "P\nsRegexp specifying records to sort:
433 sRegexp specifying key within record: \nr")
434 (cond ((or (equal key-regexp "") (equal key-regexp "\\&"))
435 (setq key-regexp 0))
436 ((string-match "\\`\\\\[1-9]\\'" key-regexp)
437 (setq key-regexp (- (aref key-regexp 1) ?0))))
438 (save-excursion
439 (save-restriction
440 (narrow-to-region beg end)
441 (goto-char (point-min))
442 (let (sort-regexp-record-end
443 (sort-regexp-fields-regexp record-regexp))
444 (re-search-forward sort-regexp-fields-regexp)
445 (setq sort-regexp-record-end (point))
446 (goto-char (match-beginning 0))
447 (sort-subr reverse
448 'sort-regexp-fields-next-record
449 (function (lambda ()
450 (goto-char sort-regexp-record-end)))
451 (function (lambda ()
452 (let ((n 0))
453 (cond ((numberp key-regexp)
454 (setq n key-regexp))
455 ((re-search-forward
456 key-regexp sort-regexp-record-end t)
457 (setq n 0))
458 (t (throw 'key nil)))
459 (condition-case ()
460 (cons (match-beginning n)
461 (match-end n))
462 ;; if there was no such register
463 (error (throw 'key nil)))))))))))
464
465 \f
466 (defvar sort-columns-subprocess t)
467
468 ;;;###autoload
469 (defun sort-columns (reverse &optional beg end)
470 "Sort lines in region alphabetically by a certain range of columns.
471 For the purpose of this command, the region BEG...END includes
472 the entire line that point is in and the entire line the mark is in.
473 The column positions of point and mark bound the range of columns to sort on.
474 A prefix argument means sort into REVERSE order.
475 The variable `sort-fold-case' determines whether alphabetic case affects
476 the sort order.
477
478 Note that `sort-columns' rejects text that contains tabs,
479 because tabs could be split across the specified columns
480 and it doesn't know how to handle that. Also, when possible,
481 it uses the `sort' utility program, which doesn't understand tabs.
482 Use \\[untabify] to convert tabs to spaces before sorting."
483 (interactive "P\nr")
484 (save-excursion
485 (let (beg1 end1 col-beg1 col-end1 col-start col-end)
486 (goto-char (min beg end))
487 (setq col-beg1 (current-column))
488 (beginning-of-line)
489 (setq beg1 (point))
490 (goto-char (max beg end))
491 (setq col-end1 (current-column))
492 (forward-line)
493 (setq end1 (point))
494 (setq col-start (min col-beg1 col-end1))
495 (setq col-end (max col-beg1 col-end1))
496 (if (search-backward "\t" beg1 t)
497 (error "sort-columns does not work with tabs -- use M-x untabify"))
498 (if (not (or (eq system-type 'vax-vms)
499 (text-properties-at beg1)
500 (< (next-property-change beg1 nil end1) end1)))
501 ;; Use the sort utility if we can; it is 4 times as fast.
502 ;; Do not use it if there are any properties in the region,
503 ;; since the sort utility would lose the properties.
504 (let ((sort-args (list (if reverse "-rt\n" "-t\n")
505 (concat "+0." (int-to-string col-start))
506 (concat "-0." (int-to-string col-end)))))
507 (when sort-fold-case
508 (push "-f" sort-args))
509 (apply #'call-process-region beg1 end1 "sort" t t nil sort-args))
510 ;; On VMS, use Emacs's own facilities.
511 (save-excursion
512 (save-restriction
513 (narrow-to-region beg1 end1)
514 (goto-char beg1)
515 (sort-subr reverse 'forward-line 'end-of-line
516 #'(lambda () (move-to-column col-start) nil)
517 #'(lambda () (move-to-column col-end) nil))))))))
518
519 ;;;###autoload
520 (defun reverse-region (beg end)
521 "Reverse the order of lines in a region.
522 From a program takes two point or marker arguments, BEG and END."
523 (interactive "r")
524 (if (> beg end)
525 (let (mid) (setq mid end end beg beg mid)))
526 (save-excursion
527 ;; put beg at the start of a line and end and the end of one --
528 ;; the largest possible region which fits this criteria
529 (goto-char beg)
530 (or (bolp) (forward-line 1))
531 (setq beg (point))
532 (goto-char end)
533 ;; the test for bolp is for those times when end is on an empty line;
534 ;; it is probably not the case that the line should be included in the
535 ;; reversal; it isn't difficult to add it afterward.
536 (or (and (eolp) (not (bolp))) (progn (forward-line -1) (end-of-line)))
537 (setq end (point-marker))
538 ;; the real work. this thing cranks through memory on large regions.
539 (let (ll (do t))
540 (while do
541 (goto-char beg)
542 (setq ll (cons (buffer-substring (point) (progn (end-of-line) (point)))
543 ll))
544 (setq do (/= (point) end))
545 (delete-region beg (if do (1+ (point)) (point))))
546 (while (cdr ll)
547 (insert (car ll) "\n")
548 (setq ll (cdr ll)))
549 (insert (car ll)))))
550
551 (provide 'sort)
552
553 ;;; sort.el ends here