Re: Emacs bug #23794; sort-line behavior regressed from prior Emacs versions

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2016 14:22:18 -0400
> 
> While I agree in general, the reason why the text is made invisible
> should be taken into account: in the case of outline-mode, it seems
> rather unlikely that the user would like to sort lines where some lines
> are headers and others aren't, since it will completely mess up
> the structure.
> 
> So by including the subsequent invisible text into each visible line,
> sort-line can become usable again in outline-mode (since it then sorts
> (sub)sections rather than lines).

As I wrote elsewhere, I don't object to outline-only solution.  The
proposed solution would have a much wider effect.