From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2020 16:26:30 +0000 (+0300)
Subject: Improve documentation of 'sort-lines'
X-Git-Tag: emacs-27.1-rc1~215
X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6c187ed6b0;p=emacs.git

Improve documentation of 'sort-lines'

* lisp/sort.el (sort-lines): Clarify the interactive invocation.
(Bug#40697)
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diff --git a/lisp/sort.el b/lisp/sort.el
index e4ff2afb3d7..de0e1b9519d 100644
--- a/lisp/sort.el
+++ b/lisp/sort.el
@@ -198,7 +198,8 @@ as start and end positions), and with `string<' otherwise."
 
 ;;;###autoload
 (defun sort-lines (reverse beg end)
-  "Sort lines in region alphabetically; argument means descending order.
+  "Sort lines in region alphabetically; REVERSE non-nil means descending order.
+Interactively, REVERSE is the prefix argument, and BEG and END are the region.
 Called from a program, there are three arguments:
 REVERSE (non-nil means reverse order), BEG and END (region to sort).
 The variable `sort-fold-case' determines whether alphabetic case affects