rcardena@hqpyr1.hqpyr1 (Ricardo A. Cardenas) (10/24/88)
Hi people,
I'm looking for a way to sort a buffer based on dates. I looked at the
various sort functions provided, but there doesn't seem to be a way to
pass a date-sorting lambda to the sort-lines or sort-fields functions.
sort-columns also looks promising, but again, no dough. I also looked
into call-process-region, but UNIX sort doesn't seem to be able to deal
with dates either.
So, anybody know of a way to sort the buffer's lines by the date in the
second field of each record? Of course a generic set of sort-functions
would be best, as I want to use this so I can sort my RMAIL-summary
buffer in different ways. An RMAIL-summary buffer looks like this:
6 ?????? yluu@sun302 just a shipping reminder.....
7D 21-Oct jcuadros@hhintx como estas peruano
8 21-Oct kakomas problem 41
9 21-Oct kakomas please teke a look at pb 47 in pts
10 21-Oct kakomas Comments on problem 48
11 22-Oct kakomas Problem with protections in pts
(Note "??????"'s should be dealt with somehow.) Any help appreciated,
will summarize if people express interest.
Thanks,
Ricky
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