From: Ramprasad B Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 14:33:38 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Installed [mark@mcs.vuw.ac.nz: sort-columns fails on NetBSD] patch X-Git-Tag: emacs-pretest-22.0.91~384 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e7cd761fab021e71fdc79fef3f05bf540a79d3ab;p=emacs.git Installed [mark@mcs.vuw.ac.nz: sort-columns fails on NetBSD] patch --- diff --git a/lisp/sort.el b/lisp/sort.el index 359067a4af3..10426fa5244 100644 --- a/lisp/sort.el +++ b/lisp/sort.el @@ -506,7 +506,10 @@ Use \\[untabify] to convert tabs to spaces before sorting." ;; Do not use it if there are any non-font-lock properties ;; in the region, since the sort utility would lose the ;; properties. - (let ((sort-args (list (if reverse "-rt\n" "-t\n") + ;; Set the field separator to tab to have the same effect as + ;; sort-columns which makes sure there are no tabs in the region + ;; worked. + (let ((sort-args (list (if reverse "-rt\t" "-t\t") (format "-k1.%d,1.%d" (1+ col-start) (1+ col-end)))))