* sort.el (sort-float-fields, sort-numeric-fields): Use

	string-to-number, not string-to-float or string-to-int.

	* sort.el (sort-float-fields): Make this autoloaded.

	* sort.el (sort-numeric-fields): Doc fix.

diff --git a/lisp/sort.el b/lisp/sort.el
index 2d56aee1f9a45b0ca0f031d289348ed10c4427ae..8c3285e144a03536a315a590f1d1de78977bd0ed 100644 (file)
--- a/lisp/sort.el
+++ b/lisp/sort.el
@@ -239,12 +239,13 @@ Fields are separated by whitespace and numbered from 1 up.
 Specified field must contain a number in each line of the region.
 With a negative arg, sorts by the ARGth field counted from the right.
 Called from a program, there are three arguments:
-FIELD, BEG and END.  BEG and END specify region to sort."
+FIELD, BEG and END.  BEG and END specify region to sort.
+If you want to sort floating-point numbers, try `sort-float-fields'."
   (interactive "p\nr")
   (sort-fields-1 field beg end
                 (function (lambda ()
                             (sort-skip-fields (1- field))
-                            (string-to-int
+                            (string-to-number
                              (buffer-substring
                                (point)
                                (save-excursion
@@ -254,6 +255,7 @@ FIELD, BEG and END.  BEG and END specify region to sort."
                                  (point))))))
                 nil))
 
+;;;###autoload
 (defun sort-float-fields (field beg end)
   "Sort lines in region numerically by the ARGth field of each line.
 Fields are separated by whitespace and numbered from 1 up.  Specified field