I tried acode, quickedit, markor, squircle CE, and numerous others.
Isn’t this like a basic thing, to sort?
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.
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.
or termux and then doing a
sort input_file.txt
I am aware of that route. But I’m looking for a text editor that will do it. You know, select some rows, click tools->sort. Seems easy enough.
No, looking for a text editor. Seems simple enough and it’s very useful.
What you’re wanting to do is sort a list, I know that word allows you to sort as bulleted list.
Edit: I assumed their mobile app had similar features to the desktop version, but after installing it’s severely lacking in features.
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.
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/
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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.