Re: sorting/randomizing text blocks separated by empty lines

Chris Lott wrote:
> Given a document with text blocks separated by empty lines:
>
> ```
> foo
> chunk one
>
> bar
> chunk two
>
> baz
> chunk three
> ```
>
> I need to both (for different purposes) 1) sort the blocks by their
> first lines and then 2) randomize the blocks by their first line.
>
> How might one (I) do this?
>
You could try using my vissort plugin
(http://www.drchip.org/astronaut/vim/index.html#VISSORT). It contains a
function, BlockSort, which will sort blocks of text. From its help:

:'<,'>BS
:'< '>BS nextblock endblock findtag tagpat tagsub
:[range]call BlockSort(nextblock,endblock,findtag,tagpat,tagsub)
:[range]call BlockSort(...)

If any arguments are missing, BlockSort()
will query the user for them.

This function's purpose is to sort blocks of text based on tags
contained within the blocks.

To do a randomization, you'd need to prepend/append randomized tags for
BlockSort to work with.

Regards,
C Campbell

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