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Sort Text Lines Alphabetically
What's the Problem?
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Solution/Idea
Love this tool, Thank You!
I think it would be a good idea to add a feature to sort text lines alphabetically. This is useful when you want to easily sort text ini file lines or xml elements from a configuration file.
Alternatives
Visual Studio has this feature, buried under deep menus. There are also web based tools to sort lines alphabetically.
Priorities
| Capability | Priority |
|---|---|
| This proposal will allow developers to accomplish W | Must |
| This proposal will allow end users to accomplish X | Should |
| This proposal will allow developers to accomplish Y | Could |
| This proposal will allow end users to accomplish Z | Won't |
DevToys Version
Version 1.0.9.0 | X64 | RELEASE | 8bcfa60 | 8bcfa60
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You mention Ini & Xml files. A strict alphabetic sorting of either of those files would destroy them. How are you envisioning this working?
- The tool recognizes the file, and does a file-specific sort?
- The user selects a set of lines and only those are sorted?
The former would be quite useful, but QUITE involved if we want to cover a reasonable number of file types.
The latter would be much simpler to implement, but still probably better handled by a text editor.
I would only want the tool to sort lines alphabetically with no detection of file type.
For example, often times developers will add dependencies to a project file (csproj) out of alphabetical order. If the project has many many dependencies it can be difficult to scan the file for a specific dep, so I like to sort the lines alphabetically. Assuming (of course) that each xml element has the same order of attributes, sorting the lines alphabetically is useful to keep the file organized. I just want to copy out the element lines from the csproj, order them in devtoys, then paste them back.
This same thing happens with app.config key/value pairs.
