Re: Sorting selections in MCEDIT

[Tim Stoodt <timstoodt gmail com>]

    For more complex sorts you could set the mc
      sort order to Unsorted, then
      F9, Command, External panelize, then a regular unix sort command
      like
      ls | sort -t"_" -k3,3
      
      let unix do the sort.

On 5/23/22 7:16 AM, Ben wrote:

I've searched all over the net, read the MCEDIT and MC man pages, pressed F1 in the proper context, and I can't find any reference to the sorting parameters for the OPTIONS/SORT command in MCEDIT.

I tried a bunch of things to get it to reverse the default sort order, and finally found that "-r" would do it.

Is there a reference anywhere, or could someone who is familiar with MCEDIT's internals, post what the options actually are? I'd love to be able to do more complex/specific sorts, particularly using specified parts of lines as the key rather than just from the first characters.

TIA.

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