Ben Fritz wrote:
> On Tuesday, June 24, 2014 10:39:28 AM UTC-5, Ben Fritz wrote:
> >
> > I thought your sort could be done in Vim with 2 passes, but unfortunately
> > it does not work:
> >
> > sort r /^\d\+/
> > sort! /.*#/
>
> Bram, any chance that a way to guarantee a stable sort could be
> included, so sorting by multiple fields could be achieved natively?
> I'm guessing you just do a library call right now that does not offer
> such guarantees, but some extra flag to the :sort command could
> perhaps be created for a built-in (stable) sort algorithm. There are
> plenty out there with good performance, probably some open-source code
> we could incorporate as well. Heck, an alternate library call might be
> able to provide it.
Currently we use qsort().
Well, if I get a very nice patch with a better sort implementation there
is a good chance it gets included. Proving that it's better will take
some effort. Oh, and also make sure the copyright is taken care of.
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