Sorting lines in editor

[YellowBeast]

I like to sort the #include'd header files.

It would be nice if the editor in Pelles C would allow you to select text, then sort its lines.
(For example, in Sublime Text 2 the F9 key sorts selected lines.)

[Bitbeisser]

I like to sort the #include'd header files.

It would be nice if the editor in Pelles C would allow you to select text, then sort its lines.
(For example, in Sublime Text 2 the F9 key sorts selected lines.)

Doesn't make much sense to me.... 

Sort by what criteria?

Ralf

[YellowBeast]

Doesn't make much sense to me.... 

Sort by what criteria?

Sort alphabetically. For example:

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#include <string.h>
#include <float.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stddef.h>

// would become

#include <float.h>
#include <stddef.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>


By ordering the lines, it can be easier to check which headers are included.

[Pelle]

Sounds like a very specialized feature - for you, and probably only you. No thanks.
An add-in could do the job.

[Manos]

Sometimes a header file needs to be first than others.
Changing the order you will take errors.

Manos.

[jj2007]

By ordering the lines, it can be easier to check which headers are included.

That makes sense, but keep in mind Manos' point (although normally the order shouldn't matter - if you have redefinitions, then the header files need to be controlled).

Anyway, attached a simple exe that sorts the clipboard. It asks for confirmation to replace the clipboard with its sorted version.

Assembler source is included, *.asc = *.rtf, opens inter alia in WordPad and MS Word.

[Bitbeisser]

Sometimes a header file needs to be first than others.
Changing the order you will take errors.

Manos.

+1
Actually quite a lot of times, the order of the header files might be important and just sorting the header files out of laziness is much more likely to create dependency problems...
I am programming in C for a bit more than 30 years now and can not say that I have run into a single case where that would have been helpful...

Ralf

[TimoVJL]

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#include <windows.h>
#include <commctrl.h>


[jj2007]

Point taken. Thanks, Timo.

[Grincheux]

Some times I use the editor to edit a file but if I must sort the lines I copy them and paste into Notepad++ the I recopy to Pelle's editor. There is simpler.