bug#16937: Proposed feature (with patch): sort on multipart keys with sort-regexp-fields

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eric Roode <sdn.gnuem@mailnull.com> writes:

>     It does this by storing a list of backreference numbers in the
> `key-regexp' parameter to `sort-regexp-fields'. Then in the
> `startkeyfun' function passed to `sort-subr', those backreference
> strings are concatenated (separated by a NUL character) to form the
> sort key.

Sorry for taking so long to get back to you on this, but I don't think
this is an ideal design for such a thing, and since it's unfortunately
been five years since this was proposed, I'm closing this bug report.

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