Label each command explicitly saying whether it's case sensitive or case insensitive

[Eldaw]

For better clarity concerning whether a particular sort is going to be case sensitive or case insensitive, my suggestion is to rename the commands to something like this:

Sort lines (ascending, case sensitive)
Sort lines (ascending, case insensitive)
Sort lines (line length)
Sort lines (descending, case sensitive)
Sort lines (unique, case sensitive)
Sort lines (shuffle)

[Eldaw]

And then, further to this, it would be nice if there were also an additional 2 commands:

Sort lines (descending, case insensitive)
Sort lines (unique, case insensitive)

[Tyriar]

👍 open to PRs

[Eldaw]

Thanks for merging my PR which takes care of part of this (i.e. the renaming of the commands which already exist). However, in doing some testing of the commands with their new names, I've discovered that the case insensitive sorting doesn't actually work as expected.

Take these 4 lines of text, for example:

AAA
aaa
AAA
aaa

If I use the TextFX plugin for Notepad++ to do an ascending, case insensitive sort of these lines, it leaves them exactly as they are (as expected). However, if I use this Sort Lines extension in VS Code and issue the command 'Sort lines (ascending, case insensitive)' then this happens:

aaa
aaa
AAA
AAA

which, of course, is not expected.

[wyckster]

I'd rather see "descending" removed as an attribute of each kind of sort, and just add a separate feature to "reverse the selected lines". So if I want to sort descending, I just sort ascending, then reverse the order of the lines with a second command.

The main reason I suggest this is so that you don't have an excessively large list of sort options. Otherwise there would be a variant for each case of flags as @Eldaw pointed out.