Hi, Org people! Very soon after having started to learn Org mode, not long ago, I tried the sorting feature "C-c ^". It's just that I got the habit of sorting lexicographically when there is no good reason to organize otherwise. But I got the feeling sorting does not work well, so I left it alone, and continued sorting by hand. I retried sorting this evening, and now might have a better description of what surprised me.
I would expect that the command sorts on what I see, rather than on what is hidden. In the case of a link, the sort would ideally consider the description of a link, and the link itself only if there is no description. And never sort on the opening bracket itself. François P.S. "Unfelicity" is a wonderful word which I saw on the R mailing lists, as Dr. Brian Ripley gets, hum, "unhappy" when people use "bug".