Is it possible to sort lines on line length?
Shortes firsts, longest last?
If so how do you do this?
This is a common use of the "decorate-sort-undecorate" pattern.
You can do something like:
:%s/^/\=strlen(getline('.')).':'
:%sort n
:%s/^[^:]*:
In non-vim7 on a *nix platform, that second sort command becomes
":%!sort -n", as the internal sort command was added in Vim7, IIRC.
If you're running non-vim7 on a win32 platform where the external
"sort" is less flexible, one would have to left-pad those numbers
with zeros...changing the first line to something ugly like
:%s/^/\=matchstr('0000000'.strlen(getline('.')), '.\{8}$').':'
and then make the 2nd line
:%!sort
If you prefer it in reverse order (longest to shortest), the sort
command(s) would become
[vim7]
:%sort nr
[*nix]
:%!sort -nr
[win32]
:%!sort /r
Just a few ideas.
-tim
