Re: how to sort words in a line

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

() Rainer Stengele <rainer.stengele@online.de>
() Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:57:17 +0200

   simple one-liner doing the work.

perhaps one expression, nicely (readably) laid out, would please you:

(defun sort-words-on-line ()
  (interactive)
  (insert (mapconcat 'identity
                     (sort (split-string 
                            (delete-and-extract-region
                             (point) (1+ (line-end-position)))) 
                           'string<)
                     " ")
          "\n"))

for this command to work, you have to be at bol and the line must end
w/ newline.  in exchange for these restrictions, it has the feature of
moving you to the next line automatically (handy for kbd macro use).

thi