Hi, This is a short edition of my blog at


http://www.myrkraverk.com/blog/2017/12/xemacs-sorting-key-value-lines-by-value/

To cut to the chase, to sort key: value lines in numerical order by
value, drop this into your ~/.xemacs/init.el

(defun my-sort-key-value-lines (beg end)
(interactive "r")
(save-excursion
(save-restriction
(narrow-to-region beg end)
(goto-char (point-min))
(sort-subr nil 'forward-line 'end-of-line
(lambda ()
(search-forward ":" nil nil 1)
(string-to-number
(buffer-substring (point)
(point-at-eol))))))))

The code can be considered WTFPL 2.0, because there's only so much you
can do with boilerplate.

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