Subject: Re: Emacs bug #23794; sort-line behavior regressed from prior Emacs versions

From: Robert Weiner <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2016 13:03:53 -0400

On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 12:55 PM, Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> wrote:

> > From: Robert Weiner <[email-masked]>
> >
> > The problem with that approach is that each mode has to be aware of this
> and add a setting, really not much
> > different than each mode having its own sort function or way of calling
> a sort function. It is much more useful
> > to centralize the behavior within the sorting library, even if it adds
> some conditional complexity to the code.
>
> Not necessarily: if you set that up in outline-mode, all of its
> descendants will inherit the setting for free.
>

Ok.

>
> > Here is the suggested patch to do it this way. -- Bob
>

One other possibility that is fairly clean is to add sort-visible-*
functions to the sort library; then callers would just have to remember to
call the visible or the regular version of the function and there would be
no need for any new defcustoms.

> Thanks, I hope others will comment on this.
>

Yes.