sort by column

[Scott Woodford]

What I do is the following:

1. select the text to be sorted
2. choose Shell->Filter Selection
3. enter "sort -k#" into the dialog box (where # is the column number to 
sort by)

I've been meaning to make a macro to sort by the column chosen by a 
mouse click, but haven't figured out yet how to wait for the position of 
a mouse click in a macro.

-Scott

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Message: 6
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 08:40:33 -0800
From: wayne.lydecker at l-3com.com
Subject: sort by column
To: discuss at nedit.org
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Nedit has a neat feature that allow me to sort a column.  What
I'd like to be able to do is sort BY column.  That is, highlight
a column (e.g. numbers) and have the lines sorted based on the
values in the column.  It's amazing how often I need a feature
like that.  Is there a macro that does this?

Thanks,

-- Wayne.

p.s.  I looked around the nedit.org site and could not find a
list of macros.  There's a menu item for resources that states
there are macros, but I cannot find any in the ftp/contrib
directory.