kakoune plugin to sort selections by their content.

Add sort-selections.kak to your autoload dir: ~/.config/kak/autoload/, or source it manually.

With multiple selections, call the sort-selections command. The selections are sorted lexicographically based on their content. If -reverse is specified, their order is... reversed.

If a register is specified (using -register), the values in the register will be sorted instead, and the resulting order then applied to the selections. For example, if you want to do case-insensitive sorting, you can first use ` to switch selections to lowercase, copy them to the " register with y, undo with u and then call sort-selections '"'. Similarly, you can also strip whitespace, convert to ascii...

This plugin also adds the following two commands based on sort-selections:

• reverse-selections, which is just a shortcut for sort-selections -reverse -register '#'. Since # is the selection index register, it just works.
• shuffle-selections, which randomizes the order of all the current selections.

The test.kak_ file contains tests for the plugin. To execute these tests, simply run kak -n -e 'source test.kak_ ; quit': if the kakoune instance stays open, the tests have somehow failed and the current state can be inspected.

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