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<info>
  <link type="guide" xref="gedit-plugin-guide#gedit-default-plugins"/>
  <desc>Sort lines of text into alphabetical order.</desc>

    <mal:credit xmlns:mal="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/" type="translator copyright">
      <mal:name>Zander Brown</mal:name>
      <mal:email>zbrown@gnome.org</mal:email>
      <mal:years>2020</mal:years>
    </mal:credit>
  </info>

<title>Sort</title>

  <p>The Sort plug-in arranges selected lines of text into alphabetical order.</p>

  <section id="enable-sort">
    <title>Enable Sort Plug-in</title>

    <p>To enable the <app>Sort</app> plug-in:</p>

    <steps>
      <item>
        <p>Select <guiseq><gui style="menu">gedit</gui> <gui style="menuitem">Preferences</gui> <gui style="tab">Plug-ins</gui></guiseq>.</p>
      </item>
      <item>
        <p>Select <gui style="menuitem">Sort</gui> to enable the plug-in.</p>
      </item>
    </steps>

  </section>

  <section id="using-sort">
    <title>Using Sort Plug-in</title>

    <p>To use the <gui>Sort</gui> plug-in:</p>

    <steps>
      <item>
        <p>Select the desired lines of text.</p>
      </item>
      <item>
        <p>Select <guiseq><gui style="menu">Tools</gui> <gui style="menuitem">Sort…</gui></guiseq>.</p>
      </item>
      <item>
        <p>The <gui>Sort</gui> dialogue will open, allowing you to choose between several sorting options:</p>
        <list>
          <item>
            <p><gui>Reverse order</gui> will arrange the text in reverse alphabetical order.</p>
          </item>
          <item>
            <p><gui>Remove duplicates</gui> will remove duplicate values from the list.</p>
          </item>
          <item>
            <p><gui>Ignore case</gui> will ignore case sensitivity.</p>
            <note style="tip">
              <p>To have the sort ignore the characters at the start of the lines, set the first character that should be used for sorting in the <gui>Start at</gui> column spin box.</p>
            </note>
          </item>
        </list>
      </item>
      <item>
        <p>To perform the sort operation, click <gui>Sort</gui>.</p>
      </item>
    </steps>
  </section>

</page>
