emacs alphabetize methods

[Skip Montanaro]

"John Hunter" <jdhunter at ace.bsd.uchicago.edu> wrote:

    John> Using emacs python-mode with a class
    John> 
    John> class C:
    John>   def method1(self):
    John>     pass
    John> 
    John>   def anothermethod(self):
    John>     pass
    John> 
    John>   def method2(self):
    John>     pass
    John> 
    John> is there any way to select all the methods and have emacs order
    John> them alphabetically?  If not, is there a good too to do so?

Sort of, but there are problems.  Emacs does have a sort-paragraphs
function.  Python-mode has a py-mark-block command.  If you place the
cursor at the start of the "class" line and hit C-c C-k you'll mark the
class.  Hit C-n C-x C-x to highlight the block except for the class line
itself then M-x sort-paragraphs RET.

This has a gotcha.  The notion of paragraph separator is basically a blank
line.  To make this more effective you'd have to modify the
paragraph-separate variable.  If you come up with a reasonable value for
Python code, send it along to python-mode at python.org and we'll update
python-mode.el.

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