sort-words.el (2706B)
1 ;;; sort-words.el --- Sort words in a selected region 2 3 ;; Filename: sort-words.el 4 ;; Description: Sort words in a selected region 5 ;; Author: "Aleksandar Simic" <asimic@gmail.com> 6 ;; License: BSD 7 ;; Created: 2016-09-07 8 ;; Version: 0.0.5 9 ;; Homepage: http://github.org/dotemacs/sort-words.el 10 ;; Keywords: tools 11 12 ;;; This file is NOT part of GNU Emacs 13 ;; 14 ;; Copyright (c) 2016, Aleksandar Simic 15 ;; All rights reserved. 16 ;; 17 ;; Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 18 ;; modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 19 ;; are met: 20 ;; 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 21 ;; notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 22 ;; 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above 23 ;; copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following 24 ;; disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided 25 ;; with the distribution. 26 ;; 27 ;; THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS 28 ;; "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT 29 ;; LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS 30 ;; FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE 31 ;; COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, 32 ;; INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES 33 ;; (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR 34 ;; SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 35 ;; HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, 36 ;; STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) 37 ;; ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED 38 ;; OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 39 40 ;;; Commentary: 41 ;; 42 ;; Usage: select a region and then 43 ;; M-x sort-words RET 44 45 ;;; Code: 46 47 (defun sort-words-in-region (start end) 48 "Sort the words in a given region (START and END) and return them as a list." 49 (sort (split-string (buffer-substring-no-properties start end)) #'string<)) 50 51 (defun sort-words-sorted (start end) 52 "Sort the words in a given region (START and END) and return them as a string." 53 (mapconcat 'identity (sort-words-in-region start end) " ")) 54 55 ;;;###autoload 56 (defun sort-words (start end) 57 "Sort words in region alphabetically. 58 Then insert them replacing the existing region. 59 START and END are boundries of the selected region." 60 (interactive "r") 61 (save-excursion 62 (save-restriction 63 (narrow-to-region start end) 64 (let ((words (sort-words-sorted (point-min) (point-max)))) 65 (delete-region (point-min) (point-max)) 66 (goto-char (point-min)) 67 (insert words))))) 68 69 (provide 'sort-words) 70 71 ;;; sort-words.el ends here