How do you sort a range of lines by length?

Question

Often I just want to sort all my #include\'s at the top of my source and header files by their length.

vim allows me to sort alphanumerical

Answer 1

Filter Visual Selection with Awk

One way to do this in vim is by filtering the visual selection with awk's length() function before sorting. For example:

:'<,'> ! awk '{ print length(), $0 | "sort -n | cut -d\\  -f2-" }'