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26.3; bibtex should allow reverse sorting

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Francesco Potortì <pot <at> gnu.org>
Subject: bug#44597: closed (Re: bug#44597: 26.3; bibtex should allow
 reverse sorting)
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2022 06:30:03 +0000

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Your bug report

#44597: 26.3; bibtex should allow reverse sorting

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

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From: Roland Winkler <winkler <at> gnu.org>
To: Francesco Potorti <pot <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>, 44597-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#44597: 26.3; bibtex should allow reverse sorting
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2022 00:29:35 -0600

On Fri, Dec 18 2020, Roland Winkler wrote:
> Thanks.  To simplify things, I just installed my patch for
> user-defined sorting schemes.  Even if it does not provide an
> easy-to-use solution, it should cover even the most exotic
> scenarios.

Closing.

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From: Francesco Potortì <pot <at> gnu.org>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 26.3; bibtex should allow reverse sorting
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2020 19:30:14 +0100

I wish bibtex mode would allow for reverse sorting of entries.

Some years ago I used to obtain that behaviour by advising the sort-subr
functions when called inside a bibtex-mode buffer.  No more.

The modern bibtex.el sorts an entry when bibtex-clean-entry is called
when bibtex-maintain-sorted-entries is t without calling sort-subr, but
relying only on bibtex-lessp, which is not easy to advice.

I have numbered labels, and I want them to stay in reverse order as they
are, but now I can get that behaviour only by setting
bibtex-maintain-sorted-entries to nil

Please add some way to reverse the order of entries

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