Re: sorting lines by term inside a tag

On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 03:38:22PM -0800, Chris Lott wrote:
> I need to sort lines like this:
>
> <li><a href="http://foo.com/">Lisa</li>
> <li><a href="http://ymmv.com/">Bart</li>
> <li><a href="http://donuts.com/">Homer</li>
>
> by the name "inside" the a tag, thus:
>
> <li><a href="http://ymmv.com/">Bart</li>
> <li><a href="http://donuts.com/">Homer</li>
> <li><a href="http://foo.com/">Lisa</li>
>
> Can I do this within Vim?

Yes. The sort function accepts a regex as an argument that it will sort
by. Refer to :help sort. You can specify a pattern like /"[^"]\+"/ for
this instance.

Eric

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