[Feature] Line based sorting in legend

[dakhnod]

What problem does this feature solve?

As seen in the image, I am displaying a chart with a legend. Since the legend shows quite a few values, echarts seems to create multiple lines for the entries, which is perfectly fine.

The issue comes from the sorting. Currently, the sorting iis column-based, the ascending values in the legend are first ascending within a column, like this:
1, 3, 5,
2, 4, 6

. I would love to be able to have the values sorted in lines, like this:
1, 2, 3,
4, 5, 6

Is this somehow doable, and I am missing something?
I could change the orientation to horizontal, but then I would only see a single line.

What does the proposed API look like?

Maybe an additional parameter in the legend block?

[echarts-bot]

@dakhnod Please provide a demo for the issue either with Official Editor, CodePen, CodeSandbox or JSFiddle.

[dakhnod]

There you go: https://echarts.apache.org/examples/en/editor.html?code=tZM9T8MwEIb3_opTFy8Zkn4ACmJgYWMCiaHqYJIjsQh25dikUdX_zvniIFDXernTXV77uST3moNTRsMDnBYAx8ej6ks4AVAB4MYDliAq6bAxdhQZd2vpZAk78Wy0yEC8egzpDWuuWh_Sk1UhvUjHyWuxp7PncMEYGX8J37KjW2ZFj1YhSXYsmYQAWn6RdCmX0xS_cxTbPIPVOoTVhkJxl0Gx3lLY3FJ5k-_nAxHWKc2sSLsgvCcnVMkJdXICJid8JCc01ybw4w4b1PW84X1rhhKc9fjPPbTHkPGu8TrwH-OPyu8dRouoCQQg-sqaroseNOQQ7WgArz-1GciI3G5RNS21izyfGoOqXct1MNfifP8D&enc=deflate

I would rather wish for the labels in the legend to be
a, b,
c, d,
e, ...