[PLUG] Emacs: sort-paragraph deletes strings from some paragraphs

[Ken Stephens]

Rich,

Hidden characters.  Check to see with od what characters are in those
paragraphs that give you trouble.

Ken

On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 5:16 PM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>
wrote:

> I have an address file with 1526 blocks of text, or 'paragraphs', one for
> each contact. The top line is a facility name and the industry in
> parentheses.
>
> Blocking the entire file and invoking 'M-x sort-paragraph' deletes the
> facility name from the first three blocks and does not sort all blocks.
>
> I'm puzzled by this behavior and my web searches haven't found an
> explanation for this.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Rich
>
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