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+To: vim-dev@vim.org
+Subject: Patch 7.1.253
+Fcc: outbox
+From: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@moolenaar.net>
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+------------
+
+Patch 7.1.253
+Problem:    ":sort" doesn't work in a one line file. (Patrick Texier)
+Solution:   Don't sort if there is only one line. (Dominique Pelle)
+Files:	    src/ex_cmds.c
+
+
+*** ../vim-7.1.252/src/ex_cmds.c	Sat Jan 19 15:55:51 2008
+--- src/ex_cmds.c	Mon Feb 18 19:38:02 2008
+***************
+*** 365,370 ****
+--- 365,374 ----
+      int		sort_oct;		/* sort on octal number */
+      int		sort_hex;		/* sort on hex number */
+  
++     /* Sorting one line is really quick! */
++     if (count <= 1)
++ 	return;
++ 
+      if (u_save((linenr_T)(eap->line1 - 1), (linenr_T)(eap->line2 + 1)) == FAIL)
+  	return;
+      sortbuf1 = NULL;
+*** ../vim-7.1.252/src/version.c	Thu Feb 14 22:19:39 2008
+--- src/version.c	Mon Feb 18 19:39:24 2008
+***************
+*** 668,669 ****
+--- 668,671 ----
+  {   /* Add new patch number below this line */
++ /**/
++     253,
+  /**/
+
+-- 
+"You know, it's at times like this when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with
+a man from Betelgeuse and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I
+really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young!"
+"Why, what did she tell you?"
+"I don't know, I didn't listen!"
+		-- Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect in Douglas Adams'
+		   "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
+
+ /// Bram Moolenaar -- Bram@Moolenaar.net -- http://www.Moolenaar.net   \\\
+///        sponsor Vim, vote for features -- http://www.Vim.org/sponsor/ \\\
+\\\        download, build and distribute -- http://www.A-A-P.org        ///
+ \\\            help me help AIDS victims -- http://ICCF-Holland.org    ///