Just as other editors do, I think that it would be useful to have an option to sort the lines alphabetically, in both orders, ascending and descending.
Thank you.
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Sincerely, one of the reasons because I opened the Bug 11097 was the need to sort lines, he he he. However, since it's not easy to implement a feature to pipe text to commands, and because ordering lines can be considered somewhat of general use, I decided to open this new report.
In my opinion, it would be useful to count with something like this, out-of-the-box.
My workaround for this is to create a bash alias in ~/.bash_aliases or ~/.bashrc like:
alias sortclipboard='xclip -selection c -o | sort | xclip -selection c -i'
When I need to sort text I just end it to the clipboard with Ctrl+C and run 'sortclipboard' in a terminal emulator.
This is ok to me (I have an idle terminal window already opened most of the time) but I still wish a basic sorting feature could be added to mousepad, built-in or through external commands (Bug 11097).
PS: Is there a roadmap or a priority list for mousepad bugs/feature requests?
Looks OK except it breaks building with with Gtk/GtkSourceView 2.
Do you think we should keep supporting gtk2 now that Xfce is fully
gtk3-based?
I don't feel very strongly, though I personally dislike GTK+3 for a variety of reasons. My main reason for maintaining GTK+2 is that IMO, there's no point to remove it if it's not a large maintenance burden, since it allows newer Mousepads to be used on older or non-Xfce distros.
If the other developers want to drop GTK+2 support because it is becoming a maintenance burden (ex. this patch), I'm OK with that. I don't think we should do it by just breaking the build without properly removing it though. If there is a desire to drop it, maybe someone could make a new bug report for that, to discuss what all needs to be removed/updated/fixed, and then once it's done we could merge this patch as is?