Feature request: alphabetic wildcard

[bszonye]

I like to organize my notes like books, with separate groups for front matter, main text, and back matter:

i. Foreword ii. Preface iii. Introduction 1. First main section 2. Second section 3. Third section A. First appendix B. Second appendix Attachments Diagrams Etc.

I'm currently using a sortspec with these patterns:

\R+. ...
\d+. ...
App. ...
%

I would prefer to replace the App. ... with \a+. ... so that I can shorten those to a single-letter abbreviation like the Roman & Arabic numerals.

[SebastianMC]

Hi @bszonye,

the newest release 1.7.1 adds support for two new sorting / grouping symbols (#67):

• \a+ to match any ASCII word
• \A+ to match any modern language word (involves advanced unicode regexp matching)

The sorting spec syntax extension example which you suggested should work as-is.

Note, that - same as for the Arabic (\d+) and Roman (\R+) numeral symbols - only one symbol per line is allowed in the sorting spec. In other words, the below example will raise an error complaining about too many sorting symbols in a single line:

  /folders \a+ \a+

At the same time, the example from your request should be fine:

  \a+. ...

[bszonye]

Awesome, thanks!