On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 03:38:22PM -0800, Chris Lott wrote: > I need to sort lines like this: > > <li><a href="http://foo.com/";>Lisa</li> > <li><a href="http://ymmv.com/";>Bart</li> > <li><a href="http://donuts.com/";>Homer</li> > > by the name "inside" the a tag, thus: > > <li><a href="http://ymmv.com/";>Bart</li> > <li><a href="http://donuts.com/";>Homer</li> > <li><a href="http://foo.com/";>Lisa</li> > > Can I do this within Vim?
Yes. The sort function accepts a regex as an argument that it will sort by. Refer to :help sort. You can specify a pattern like /"[^"]\+"/ for this instance. Eric -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
