This worked for me. Put the cursor on the first line and type: !}sort See the unix man page on sort for any additional options you may want to through at it. The ! tells vim you want want process a block of text thru an external program The } tells vim to send this paragraph 'sort' is the command to do the filtering/processing.
that's my basis understanding of what is happening. On Saturday, January 30, 2021 at 3:41:51 AM UTC-5 [email protected] wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to sort lines by order ascendant by the alphabetical value of > the two first columns. > > 2021/01/13 15:05:52.417 FOO > 2021/01/13 15:05:52.417 FOO > 2021/01/13 15:05:52.417 FOO > 2021/01/13 15:06:05.151 FOO > 2021/01/13 15:06:05.151 FOO > 2021/01/13 15:06:05.151 FOO > 2021/01/13 15:06:05.151 FOO > 2021/01/13 15:06:05.151 FOO > 2021/01/13 15:06:08.354 FOO > 2021/01/13 15:06:08.354 FOO > 2021/01/13 15:06:08.354 FOO > 2021/01/13 15:06:05.151 BAR > 2021/01/13 15:06:05.151 BAR > 2021/01/13 15:06:05.151 BAR > 2021/01/13 15:06:05.151 BAR > 2021/01/13 15:06:05.151 BAR > 2021/01/13 15:06:05.151 BAR > 2021/01/13 15:06:08.354 BAR > 2021/01/13 15:06:08.354 BAR > 2021/01/13 15:06:08.354 BAR > > > > -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/e8505926-0b07-4071-b02d-7485bba1e512n%40googlegroups.com.
