Re: I need a reminder on how to sort a section of text

[Marc Simpson]

On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 11:43 AM Chris Green <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> It's been too long since I did this and I can't remember the way to do
> it.
>
> I want to sort a block of lines of text.

you can use the ! operator with a motion, e.g.

  1G!Gsort

which will move to the first line, and sort through the end of file
(last line, G).  with marks 'a' and 'b' set, that would be:

  'a!'bsort

alternatively, you can do everything from the command prompt.
assuming you have the same two marks set:

  :'a,'b!sort

will do the trick.

/m