Re: Sort lines, then tag, then unsort

To be fair, I was thinking of ad-hoc creating properties, not using a script parsing a file.

On Tuesday, September 14, 2021 at 8:52:33 AM UTC-4 rwmit...@gmail.com wrote:

Interesting, I did not know about text properties although it only seems marginally useful:

```When a buffer is unloaded, all the text properties are gone.  There is no way

to store the properties in a file.  You can only re-create them```

What would it take to save them to a shadow file?

On Tuesday, September 14, 2021 at 8:17:57 AM UTC-4 cbl...@256bit.org wrote:

On Di, 14 Sep 2021, Julius Hamilton wrote:

> I would like to sort lines in a text document and then tag them, and then revert the file to its original order.
>
> First of all, is there a way to tag a line, so that lines with a given tag can be quickly referred to, but the tag is not in the actual text?

I think this can be done using text-properties.
Have a look at :h text-prop-intro

Best,
Christian
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