From: Tor Kringeland <tor.a.s.kringeland@ntnu.no>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 52265@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#52265: Wishlist: Behavior of rectangles when last line is short
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2021 01:25:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2a6heshos.fsf@ntnu.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lf10xbne.fsf@gnus.org>
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> I think there's a separate package for doing this... er... something
> about tabular mode, but I forget what it's called. It mogrifies text
> into a table, and from that you can export into various formats. Or was
> it table.el? It's been a long while since I used it last.
Thank you, I'll have a look around the ecosystem :)
> I think selecting prefix characters etc just isn't general enough. When
> creating a CSV file, for instance, you want to get rid of the spaces,
> too. So creating a table and then exporting (via various rules) seems
> more useful.
I see. Alan Third mentioned `rectangle-mark-mode', which solves the
first point. For the second point I can concoct something to format to
CSV (or find a package). So you can close this request for my part.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-12-06 0:25 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 [this message]
2021-12-06 1:30 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-04 21:18 ` Alan Third
2021-12-06 0:12 ` Tor Kringeland
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