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

[John Wiegley]

>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

> Didn't think that far, but is it really clean for sort-lines to have special
> code for some major mode? I thought a better way is to override the default
> behavior by having sort-lines call functions through funcall or somesuch,
> and then outline modes could set the appropriate variable to the function of
> their liking?
> 
> Just thinking aloud.

I would prefer this approach as well. Rather than coupling core functionality
to any particular mode, we should expose hooks that allow core functions to be
specialized.

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