Bug in sorting lines, staying there for years
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Line Operations -> Sort lines works ONLY if you convert Edit -> EOL Conversion ->Unix.
Unless I am missing something this looks like a bug…
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@Eric-Wiseman said in Bug in sorting lines, staying there for years:
Line Operations -> Sort lines works ONLY if you convert Edit -> EOL Conversion ->Unix.
Unless I am missing something this looks like a bug…
Correction: Edit > Line Operations > Sort … commands work ONLY if you have consistent EOL, whether it is consistently Unix (LF), consistently Mac (CR), or consistently Windows (CRLF). There are multiple Issues in the official issue repository for this (the most recent of which is #17251).
You can try the experiment yourself: do the Edit > EOL Conversion to Unix, then back to Windows CRLF, and you will see that you can still sort correctly, so it’s obviously not anything unique about the Unix line ending.
And if you look at the original version of your file where sort didn’t work right away, and use View > Show Symbol > Show End of Line, you will see that one of more of the lines that didn’t sort correctly have a different line ending than the one shown in the status bar (like the image @mpheath posted in this comment on issue #17251)
Mismatched line endings are evil, and if you have some other application that is creating a file that has them, it needs to be reported to the maker of that software as a bug. And until that end of the process is fixed, you can use Notepad++ to convert the EOL twice (once to something other than Windows EOL, then a second time to get back to Windows EOL) to get consistent line endings.
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@PeterJones said in Bug in sorting lines, staying there for years:
#17251
MY favorite issue for this one…stuck in my brain somehow…is https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/7735
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@Alan-Kilborn said in Bug in sorting lines, staying there for years:
MY favorite issue for this one
Good memory. I like that one, because it’s got so many links to/from the other issues (I just linked the newest back to that one as well), as well as having links to the various discussions in this Forum where users have problems with it. Thus, it makes a good “table of contents” for the various discussions.
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@Eric-Wiseman said in Bug in sorting lines, staying there for years:
Line Operations -> Sort lines works ONLY if you convert Edit -> EOL Conversion ->Unix.
Unless I am missing something this looks like a bug…
As others have already explained, this is not a bug but rather a known and documented limitation, that all line endings must be the same.
If Sort Lines In Locale Order Ascending and Descending do what you want, those sorts implemented differently and are not dependent on consistent line endings. The ending for each line will remain with the text of the line it follows.
The Locale sorts can also sort using a rectangular selection for the keys even if there are tabs or characters of differing byte widths (such as can happen with non-ASCII characters in UTF-8) to the left of the selection, which does not work with the other sorts.
