Android @lemmy.world Alien Surfer @lemmy.world 11 mo. ago

Text editor with sort functionality

I tried acode, quickedit, markor, squircle CE, and numerous others.

Isn't this like a basic thing, to sort?

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You can do this in vim, which you can run on Android.
- Do you? I've tried. Not fun. I use vim everyday on my workstation. On Android tiny keyboard, hard pass.
VS Code can sort lines (all or selected), I use it often too.

Ah sorry, I just saw it's for android - I'd choose the termux approach with sort file.txt.
- There is always the web version that also runs on Android: https://vscode.dev/
I use jove (a small, lightweight emacs) within Termux, and M-X filter-region through sort
- I see. I switched from emacs to vim years ago and now I've forgotten most of the key chords in emacs. Nevertheless, seems like an awful way to edit files on a small android device. I tried vim for android and it was quite challenging. Not something I want to repeat.
  
  With "Unexpected Keyboard" (from f-droid) it's ok. I've come to expect that there's a basic choice between easy, with GUI, and powerful (like "sort a region of lines"), which is only GUI if you've got a powerful GUI, like plan 9. Otherwise, powerful means keyboard-driven.
  
  When I've got a long, complex edit, I've got a nice, pocket-size, battery-powered folding bluetooth keyboard; combined with the kickstands on my phone cases, it is pretty good.
You mean sorting your documents by name/size/modified date?
- No, sorting text in the document. Sort all lines in document.
  
  From this:
  
  Paper Altitude A better book
  
  To this:
  
  A better book Altitude Paper
  
  Maybe you want a spreadsheet app instead.
Notepad++ for Windows is capable of sorting natively.

Edit > Line Operations

Then there are many sort options in this menu.
Are you using windows? Then you don't need software. You can do that in the command prompt.

The command is literally called "sort"

Step by step tutorial:

Right click somewhere, select "Create New/text document". Type or paste your list there. Save it. Right click the file, select properties and copy the location. F.i. "C/user/desktop/"

Press windows key. Type CMD. Open the the command prompt. Go to the place where the file is by typing "cd " and paste the location.

Type: sort [your filename.txt] > [new file name.txt]

You now have a sorted copy of the file.

Otherwise use a spreadsheet to do it.
- My question is regarding Android apps. I thought that was implied by the community name. My apologies for the confusion.

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