Change Log

Unreleased

v1.3.0 - 2024-02-03

Added

Try to sort tokens separated by dots (periods) if no whitespaces are selected.
- This is useful for sorting CSS compound selectors.
- This feature can be disabled by setting useDotAsWordSeparator to false.

v1.2.2 - 2022-12-10

Fixed

Fix badge image URL in README

v1.2.1 - 2022-11-26

Fixed

Set up GitHub Action to publish extension on pushing tags to both Visual Studio Marketplace and Open VSX Repository.
Update dependencies

v1.2.0 - 2022-05-16

Changed

Update meaw to v6.0.0
Recreated as a Web extension (GitHub Codespaces supported)
BREAKING CHANGE: Renamed the extension to "Smart Sort" (from Stable Sort)
- Name of commands and configurations are changed accordingly:
  - (Command) stableSort.sortAscending → smartSort.sortAscending
  - (Command) stableSort.sortDescending → smartSort.sortDescending
  - (Configuration) stableSort.preferWordSorting → smartSort.preferWordSorting

v1.1.0 - 2019-06-23

Added

New setting stableSort.preferWordSorting (see Changed subsection below)

Changed

Now lines touched by a selection will be sorted under the condition below unless stableSort.preferWordSorting setting is set true
1. there is only one selection range
2. it covers multiple lines
3. either it's start or end position is not at the beginning of a line

Fixed

Words may be concatenated on sorting (Issue #2)

v1.0.0 - 2019-06-16

Added

Unified commands to sort words and lines
- New keybinding: Ctrl+Alt+R and Ctrl+Alt+Shift+R (mac: Cmd+Ctrl+R and Cmd+Ctrl+Shift+R)
Now words spread over multiple lines can be sorted
Now whether to sort numerically or not are guessed automatically

Changed

Changed zlib License to MIT License
Removed character code based sorting (not considered useful much)
Now this extension reproduces spaces around separators according to what the separator character is
- If it's a comma (,) or a tab (\t), only trailing whitespaces will be reproduced
- If it's a vertical bar (or "pipe", |), preceding whitespaces and/or trailing whitespaces will be reproduced
- Reproduced whitespace will always be a single space (U+0020)
Now word separator is guessed using firstly appeared candidate

Fixed

Now ignores spaces after tab characters on sorting words separated with them
Wrongly treated consecutive occurrence of separators as single occurrence

v0.3.0 - 2018-10-01

Added

New sort options to use character code for string comparison

Changed

Renamed to "Stable Sort"

[v0.2.1-beta] - 2018-09-18

Changed

Now uses user environment language as the locale for comparing strings

Fixed

Sort result is not stable if sorting in descending order

[v0.2.0-beta] - 2018-09-17

Added

New commands to sort words in a selection range
Add many new features

Changed

Renamed to "xsort"

[v0.1.0-beta] - 2018-09-16

Add

Initial beta release