From: Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>
To: Tor Kringeland <tor.a.s.kringeland@ntnu.no>
Cc: 52265@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#52265: Wishlist: Behavior of rectangles when last line is short
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2021 21:18:21 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YavbHSkgPmtzXB+G@idiocy.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2czmdthir.fsf@ntnu.no>
On Sat, Dec 04, 2021 at 12:06:52AM +0100, Tor Kringeland wrote:
> Suppose we have the following text
>
> text123
> more text
> text
> first
> second
> third
>
> and want to turn it into
>
> text123,first
> more text,second
> text,third
>
> using rectangles. This is problematic since the last line is shorter
> than the two before. A solution to this [1] is to add spaces at the end
> of the last line until it becomes the longest, mark the last three lines
> with POINT being at the end of the spaces and then kill the rectangle.
> Since the first line is shorter than the two following, one has to add
> spaces here as well to make it the longest.
Try C-x SPC, that should put you into a rectangle mode which lets you
specify a rectangle that extends past the end of the line.
--
Alan Third
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-12-04 21:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-12-03 23:06 bug#52265: Wishlist: Behavior of rectangles when last line is short Tor Kringeland
2021-12-04 19:50 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-04 20:33 ` Tor Kringeland
2021-12-04 22:12 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-06 0:25 ` Tor Kringeland
2021-12-06 1:30 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-04 21:18 ` Alan Third [this message]
2021-12-06 0:12 ` Tor Kringeland
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