allow custom sort function depending on filetype

[e110c0]

currently, "sort lines ascending" sorts alphabetically caseinsensitive.
While this makes sense most of the time, there are case where a more specific ordering would be preferable,

Example: Sass/CSS ordering

when sorting in Sass/Css files, the current sorting order is a counter intuitive:

border: ...
border-radius: ...

will become

border-radius: ...
border: ...

because it orders '-' before ':' but in this specific case, it's preferable to go from generic to specific, i.e. ordering border before border-radius.

with a way to provide a custom sort function (or have some to choose from) would allow to get this way of sorting

[vscodebot]

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Thanks for submitting this issue. Please also check if it is already covered by an existing one, like:

• editor.action.sortLinesAscending has confusing sort order for symbols (#48123)

[e110c0]

#48123 is similar (requesting ASCII compare instead of localeCompare) but this would not resolve this specific situation since - (45) comes before : (58)

[alexdima]

This could be implemented from an extension. Specifically, for CSS, a formatter could be written that always sorts properties in a certain order ...

[vscodebot]

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