[X] 100% Soccer team
[X] 100% Sims, Tim
[X] 100% physical
[X] 100% uniform deposit #31
[ ] 50% Smith, Sam
[ ] 0% physical
[X] 100% uniform deposit
[ ] 0% Comer, Hannah
[ ] 0% physical
[ ] 0% uniform deposit #8
[X] 100% Thornton, Tyler
[X] 100% physical
[X] 100% uniform deposit #35
I would like to sort the names and keep the lines below each header
with the appropriate header.
I did try folding and then sorting, but the fold was ignored and all
lines were sorted.
A common solution to this problem is known as the
"decorate-sort-undecorate" pattern. Presuming the character "@"
is not used in your file and that you do have tabs rather than
spaces, you can use something like this:
:g/^ \[/.,'}-s/\n/@/
:2,$s/^\([^%]*%\s*\)\([EMAIL PROTECTED])@/[EMAIL PROTECTED]@
:2,$!sort
:2,$s/^\([EMAIL PROTECTED])@\([EMAIL PROTECTED])@/\2\1@
:%s/@/\r/g
All characters are typed literally, and, according to your file
(having actual tabs, not spaces for indentation), that first line
has a single tab in it between the caret and the
backslash+left-square-bracket.
In this case, you'd actually be doing a
decorate-decorate-sort-undecorate-undecorate. The first decorate
mashes them into one line, the second decorate pulls the name to
the front for sorting purposes. It then sorts the results, swaps
the name back into position, and then unmashes them all back into
their multi-line format.
It's a bit convoluted, but you can create a mapping/function to
do it if you want it regularly. You just have to pick a
character that's not in use in your file.
HTH,
-tim (not Sims)
