[Qt-creator] Sorting lines

[Eike Ziller]

On Apr 28, 2010, at 10:02 PM, ext Craig Bradney wrote:

> On 4/28/10 8:57 PM, Craig Bradney wrote:
>> On 4/28/10 12:26 PM, Thorbjørn Lindeijer wrote:
>> 
>>> On 04/27/2010 10:17 PM, ext Christian Hoenig wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> Is there a feature/plugin/way to get line sorting available in Qt
>>>>> Creator? I remember KDevelop had this ability to send a selection
>>>>> through an external program, in this case, sort.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> I have a patch in the queue that allows to sort lines. Unfortunately I did not
>>>> submit it yet. If you build your qtcreator on your own, I can send you the
>>>> patch if you like.
>>>> 
>>>> Another way to sort lines is to use "!sort" in fakevim, if you use this :-).
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> I'm looking forward to your patch, so I hope you will have time to 
>>> submit it. :-)
>>> 
>>> There is an open task about this here:
>>> 
>>> http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTCREATORBUG-913
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> Bjørn
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> Great, I have now voted for this one, and will test out fakevim options
>> in the meantime.
>> 
> Hmm fakevim does little to nothing.. the mode kicks in, but running the
> !sort does nothing apart from deselect the text selection

Maybe you need to run a Qt Creator snapshot (I'm not sure when the sort was implemented).
Also not that you need to type a ':' as well, i.e. 
select, alt-v,alt-v, :!sort

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Eike Ziller
Software Engineer
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