Sorting in BED.exe

[Pietro54]

Greetings everyone
when I use BED.EXE and sort the entire file the result is the same desired.
However, if I select for example 5 rows after the sorting the row on which it is positioned the cursor disappears.
Is this a defect or am I doing something wrong?

[MrBcx]

Pietro,

When selecting your lines to sort, the bottom of your selection must stop on the right side of a line.

If you stop at the left side of a line, you will get the behavior you are seeing.

[Pietro54]

Thanks MrBCX.
I noticed the problem when I ordered the first lines of a SET ... END SET array and a row was missing.
However, the behavior of BED is different from other editors where the selected rows are included or not in the sorting but never deleted.

[MrBcx]

Your problem is not in the sorting, it's in how you select the data.

For example, you will have a mess on your hands if you start or end
your selection anywhere in the middle of your lines.  BED's sorting is
intended for whole lines of selected text.

* Top of selection must be the first character of a line.
* Bottom of selection must be the last character of a line.

If you follow those 2 rules, you shouldn't have any problems.