How to sort lines in a selection?

[Robert-M-Muench]

See subject.

[Omnikar]

You can probably pipe the selection through a shell command using | in order to do that.

[hovsater]

This is what I currently use since its's actually faster and shorter to type than using the builtin :sort command. With :sort you have to make a selection, press Alt-s and then run :sort. Using a pipe it's as easy as |sort.

[sudormrfbin]

There's also a built-in :sort command being worked on in #1288.

[kirawi]

Merged in a4641a8

[matoous]

So the current answer is: select the lines, press Alt+s to split the selection on new lines, and call :sort to sort the lines (:rsort for reverse).