Re: Sorting multiple "sections"

On Fri, February 1, 2013 06:49, Chris Lott wrote:
> I have various markdown documents with with lists contained in sections
> like so:
>
> One Section
> --------
>
> * list item 1
> * another
> * etc
>
> Second Section
> ----------
>
> * more list items
> * etc
>
> The sections are always formatted as the above (level 2 markdown
> headers); the lists are of variable length.
>
> What I need to do is figure the most efficient way to sort each list
> in each section alphabetically.
>

You can combine a :g command with the sort command, e.g. something like
this:
:g/^-\+$/+2;'}-sort
Which selects the range from just 1 line after the '----' lines
until the the last list item and sort them accordingly.

(Interestingly ':g/^-\+$/+2,'}-sort' (comma instead of semicolon)
gives an error. Not sure, why this happens).

regards,
Christian

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