Catastrophism

Can anyone tell me how to copy that list in a way that copies the underlying links so I can paste them into Word or Excel and alphabetize and recopy then with the links and paste back into a post???

Something like this?

HOW DID YOU DO IT.

HOW DID YOU DO IT.

I used the Firefox browser and the Emacs editor.

In Firefox, I selected the list of links, and did a right-click, which popped a menu with an option "View Selection Source". I chose that option, and that showed the list of links as html. I saved that html as a separate file via the "Save" option.

I then edited the file with Emacs; it has a function called "sort-columns" which let me easily do the sorting on the link text.

There were some anomalies due to leading special characters such as quote marks and parentheses, but they were few and easy enough to move to the correct area.

WONDERFUL. THANKS THANKS.

I’d forgotten source code option in firefox. Thanks.

Find the message you want to do this to.
Click "reply".
Use your browser to view source, or...
Use your browser to save as HTML.
Do your editing on the HTML file, that will work. Word even makes that somewhat easy.
In Windows, right-click on the saved file's icon, and
select "Open with", and
select Word

Have fun, and enjoy the links.

THX MUCH

Uh, not to complain, but, uh, I’m not sure I needed that one anyway. ;’) Thanks Quix!

Though, if I *were* to alphabetize it, I’d get all anal, and isolate the leading “A “ and “The “ in the topic names, so that they would be ignored by the sort. ;’)

Also where Bill Haley got his inspiration for “Rock Around the Clock”.

I realized too late they didn’t include the links.

I’d have been overly anal as well and taken out the leading “A’s” and “The’s”

Alas, I haven’t gotten to my class administrivia yet for tomorrow . . . silly me.

Goodness, are you as old as I am??

Hi — I’ve just gone through all the ping lists (just finished that process) to clean out the ex-FReepers. In that connection, I’ve removed you from the Catastrophism ping list.

New cover!

The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes:
Flood, Fire, and Famine
in the History of Civilization
by Richard Firestone,
Allen West, and
Simon Warwick-Smith

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2328160/posts?page=39#39

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