Re: [PLUG] Emacs: sort-paragraph deletes strings from some paragraphs

2018-01-25 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 25 Jan 2018, Johnathan Mantey wrote: Have you checked to see if your data contains values that get successfully match the regexp within the paragraph-start or paragraph-separate lisp variables? Perhaps there are some whitespace characters (TAB, or FF) in unusual locations in the data.

Re: [PLUG] Emacs: sort-paragraph deletes strings from some paragraphs

2018-01-25 Thread Johnathan Mantey
Have you checked to see if your data contains values that get successfully match the regexp within the paragraph-start or paragraph-separate lisp variables? Perhaps there are some whitespace characters (TAB, or FF) in unusual locations in the data. In my experience CSV always has an irregular

[PLUG] Emacs: sort-paragraph deletes strings from some paragraphs

2018-01-24 Thread Rich Shepard
I have an address file with 1526 blocks of text, or 'paragraphs', one for each contact. The top line is a facility name and the industry in parentheses. Blocking the entire file and invoking 'M-x sort-paragraph' deletes the facility name from the first three blocks and does not sort all blocks.