Imagine you’re working in vim. You come across this code:

gem 'clearance', '1.0.0.rc4' gem 'neat' gem 'stripe' gem 'pg' gem 'thin' gem 'rails', '3.2.11' gem 'bourbon' gem 'simple_form' gem 'strong_parameters'

You want to sort the list alphabetically. You select the lines visually:

Shift + V

You invoke the sort function:

:sort

You rejoice:

gem 'bourbon' gem 'clearance', '1.0.0.rc4' gem 'neat' gem 'pg' gem 'rails', '3.2.11' gem 'simple_form' gem 'stripe' gem 'strong_parameters' gem 'thin'

You dig deeper:

:help sort

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