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From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
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Subject: Re: vi - alphabetical sort
Keywords: alphabetical sort of a file
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Date: 13 Dec 90 02:41:43 GMT
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In article <1990Dec12.214128.16549@sunee.waterloo.edu> neman@sunee.waterloo.edu (Neman "Napalm" Syed) writes:
>Hi!  Another question from another vi-illiterate.  How does one
>perform an alphabetical sort of all items in a file?  

    :%!sort

will do it.    Why you would want to go into the editor just to do 
this, I do not know.

--tom
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