"org-sort" doesn't work in evil

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Originally reported by: York Zhao (Bitbucket: york, GitHub: york)

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This problem have been confirmed by using "make emacs".

The problem is that in org-mode, if you select a region of headlines and use "org-sort" on the region, the headlines will be sorted however the sorted headlines will be combined into one line. For example, I have the following text:

*** headline b
*** headline a

I select these two lines by moving the point to the first line and press "V", "j", then "M-x org-sort", the result will be:

*** headline a *** headline b

Instead of:

*** headline a
*** headline b

If I place the point on the first line and press "C-SPC", DOWN, DOWN, and then press LEFT to move the point to the the end of the second line it will work fine.

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• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/lyro/evil/issue/38

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Original comment by Vegard Øye (Bitbucket: epsil, GitHub: epsil):

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Fixed in commit 8dd67aa.

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Original comment by York Zhao (Bitbucket: york, GitHub: york):

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This is still problematic, example:

== *** foo
== *** bar
== *** something else

After `org-sort', they become:

== *** bar***
== foo

== *** something else

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Original comment by York Zhao (Bitbucket: york, GitHub: york):

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Bump this one as I was confused by what "wontfix" means.

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Original comment by Vegard Øye (Bitbucket: epsil, GitHub: epsil):

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I'm not able to reproduce this. Could you wrap the example in ... so that BitBucket doesn't format it?

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Original comment by Anonymous:

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Could you wrap the example in ... so that BitBucket doesn't format it?

Sorry I didn't know how to stop BitBucket's auto format. So here is the org-mode buffer to start with:

** foo
** bar
** something else

Type "V", then "j" to select the first two lines, and M-x org-sort, choose 'a' and the buffer becomes:

** bar**
foo
<blank line>
** something else

which is incorrect, after the sort the buffer should be:

** bar
** foo
** something else

Thanks

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Original comment by Vegard Øye (Bitbucket: epsil, GitHub: epsil):

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I'm still unable to reproduce it. Here are my steps:

1. Start a fresh Evil instance with make emacs.

2. Create an empty buffer with :b test.

3. Insert the following text:

   ** foo
   ** bar
   ** something else

4. Go to the beginning of the buffer.

5. Select the text with Vjj.

6. Sort the lines with M-x org-sort ([a]lpha).

7. Result:

   ** bar
   ** foo
   ** something else

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Original comment by York Zhao (Bitbucket: york, GitHub: york):

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Should be "Vj" to select only the first two lines not "Vjj".

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Original comment by Vegard Øye (Bitbucket: epsil, GitHub: epsil):

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I'm still not able to reproduce this. What is your version of Org-mode (M-x org-version)? Mine is 7.6, installed with sudo apt-get install org-mode.

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Original comment by York Zhao (Bitbucket: york, GitHub: york):

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I'm using the latest org-version from git, v7.8.03, but the problem has been there for awhile, back to the time while using v7.7.

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Original comment by Vegard Øye (Bitbucket: epsil, GitHub: epsil):

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I upgraded to version 7.8.03. Still nothing.

I don't even understand what kind of bug this is supposed to be. The only way I can get something similar is if I insert newlines in between. That is,

** foo

** bar

** something else

instead of

** foo
** bar
** something else

Then, if I select foo + newline + bar, I get bar + foo + newline after sorting (the "newline layout" is not retained). If I select foo + newline + bar + newline, then I get bar + newline + foo + newline after sorting (the "newline layout" //is// retained).

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Original comment by Vegard Øye (Bitbucket: epsil, GitHub: epsil):

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If this second bug is in any way related to the first (which was addressed by commit 8dd67aa), then commit 9f7dbc2 //might// fix it. But as I said, I'm not exactly sure what we're dealing with here.

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Original comment by York Zhao (Bitbucket: york, GitHub: york):

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9f7dbc finally fixed the issue, working beautifully now. Good job Vegard.

Thanks a lot